Patient/caregiver was instructed upon therapeutic uses of tamoxifen as follows:

Tamoxifen is a medication that belongs to a class of drugs that selectively bind to estrogen receptors located in different body tissues and modulate or alter their function. After binding to the estrogen receptors, depending on the target tissue involved, tamoxifen can have both estrogenic and antiestrogenic effects.

Anovulation in women

• Appropriate release of sex hormones from the hypothalamus and pituitary glands is needed for maintenance of normal cycles and production of eggs in women, in the reproductive age-group.
• Disturbance in the release of these sex hormones can result in disturbance in the reproductive cycles and contribute to anovulation in women, making it difficult to conceive.
• Tamoxifen use can help stimulate and stream line the release of sex hormones from the hypothalamus and pituitary glands.
• This organization in the sex hormone release can contribute to normal reproductive cycles and help ovulation, thus increasing chances to conceive, in women wishing to become pregnant.