Treatment
Sometimes, gynecomastia does not respond to any sort of medications and home remedies and causes extreme pain in the breast. Only in such cases, the doctors advise the patients to go for a surgical procedure in order to reduce the size of the breast.
Pharmacological treatment
Tamoxifen is the drug that helps to avoid fat accumulation in the breast. Tamoxifen works by nullifying the effects of estrogen hormone in the breast tissue, which decrease the size of the breast. It is the type of exogenous testosterone therapy. The efficiency rate of tamoxifen is 80% Tamoxifen is also continued after surgical procedures to prevent recurrence.
A 6-month treatment with clomiphene can also be used. It is effective in about 50% of cases.