Regulatory approval

Published by the Health Service Executive.

The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has approved tamoxifen for reimbursement as a treatment option for the adjuvant treatment of estrogen receptor positive breast cancer in patients who are pre- or post-menopausal women.

This is written in the approval document as:

Adjuvant treatment of oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer in pre- or post-menopausal women.

Citation

Tamoxifen Monotherapy, 2025, version number 5, NCCP National SACT Regimen, NCCP, viewed 26/03/2026, https://healthservice.hse.ie/documents/6357/253_v5_Tamoxifen_Monotherapy.pdf

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organization(s) Biomarker(s) Cancer type Therapy(ies)
HSE (1) ER positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Tamoxifen