Caroline, I live in Northern California.
Onc's tend to give us patients hormone suppressors first before handling out chemo ("big-guns"), because they want us to have better quality of life. You know how stronger chemo's could throw us off-track big time.
In US, Faslodex is considered "second-line" therapy, after either Tamoxifen / Femara is not found to be successful, i.e. disease progression. Don't know anything about Arimidex, though.
Any questions, you are welcome to email me anytime. Good luck! Sending warm hugs from here to there.
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