Combination Chemotherapy Following Surgery in Treating Women With Early Stage Breast Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known which combination chemotherapy regimen is more effective following surgery for breast cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil with or without epirubicin in treating women who have early stage breast cancer.

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1996-10

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Publications

• Background Earl H, Hiller L, Dunn JA, et al.: The National Epirubicin Adjuvant Trial (NEAT) and Scottish Cancer Trials Breast Group (SCTBG) br9601 randomized phase III adjuvant early breast cancer trials: the updated definitive joint analysis. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 25 (Suppl 18): A-534, 11s, 2007.
• Background Poole CJ, Earl HM, Hiller L, Dunn JA, Bathers S, Grieve RJ, Spooner DA, Agrawal RK, Fernando IN, Brunt AM, O'Reilly SM, Crawford SM, Rea DW, Simmonds P, Mansi JL, Stanley A, Harvey P, McAdam K, Foster L, Leonard RC, Twelves CJ; NEAT Investigators and the SCTBG. Epirubicin and cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil as adjuvant therapy for early breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2006 Nov 2;355(18):1851-62. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa052084.
• Background Poole CJ, Earl HM, Dunn JA, et al.: NEAT (National Epirubicin Adjuvant Trial) and SCTBG BR9601 (Scottish Cancer Trials Breast Group) phase III adjuvant breast trials show a significant relapse-free and overall survival advantage for sequential ECMF. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 22: A-13, 4, 2003.
• Results Bartlett JM, Munro A, Cameron DA, Thomas J, Prescott R, Twelves CJ. Type 1 receptor tyrosine kinase profiles identify patients with enhanced benefit from anthracyclines in the BR9601 adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy trial. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Nov 1;26(31):5027-35. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2007.14.6597. Epub 2008 Sep 2.
• Braunstein M, Liao L, Lyttle N, Lobo N, Taylor KJ, Krzyzanowski PM, Kalatskaya I, Yao CQ, Stein LD, Boutros PC, Twelves CJ, Marcellus R, Bartlett JM, Spears M. Downregulation of histone H2A and H2B pathways is associated with anthracycline sensitivity in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2016 Feb 6;18(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s13058-016-0676-6.

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