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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Stopping Femara can sometimes improve your breast cancer, rather than causing side effects. However, this particular treatment approach isn’t right for everyone.If your doctor thinks Femara has stopped working for you, talk with them about whether stopping treatment could be beneficial for you.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves prescription drugs such as Femara to treat certain conditions. But sometimes Femara is used off-label for other conditions. Off-label use is when a drug that’s approved to treat one condition is used to treat a different condition.Femara is used off-label to treat infertility in females.* It’s mainly used when infertility is caused by problems with ovulation (the release of eggs from your ovaries). The most common cause of ovulation problems that result in infertility is polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).† But Femara is also sometimes used to treat infertility that doesn’t have an obvious cause.In all of these cases, Femara is used to treat infertility by inducing (causing) ovulation. For this use, you’ll take Femara for a few days after the start of your period. Doing this temporarily lowers your estrogen level.This signals your pituitary gland to release hormones called follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). These hormones stimulate an egg in your ovary to mature and be released from your ovary. This is how Femara causes ovulation. This use of the drug is called ovulation induction.If you’re already ovulating before taking Femara, the drug may cause more eggs than usual to mature and be released from your ovaries. This condition is called controlled ovarian hyperstimulation or superovulation.To learn more about infertility and its causes, you can see our list of fertility articles.* Sex and gender exist on spectrums. Use of the term “female” in this article refers to the sex assigned at birth.† PCOS is a condition that can cause
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