4 x Epirubicin, Cyclophosphamide, Followed by 4 x Docetaxel Versus 6 x CMF / 6 x CEF

Summary

Taxane-based adjuvant chemotherapy is standard in node-positive (N+) early breast cancer (BC). The magnitude of benefit in intermediate-risk N+ early BC is still unclear. West German Study Group and "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie" (WSG-AGO) EC-Doc is a large trial evaluating modern sequential taxane-based chemotherapy in the subgroup with 1-3 involved lymph nodes (LN).

Timeline

Start

2000-06

Primary completion

2005-08

Completion

2010-08

Publications

• Results Nitz U, Gluz O, Huober J, Kreipe HH, Kates RE, Hartmann A, Erber R, Moustafa Z, Scholz M, Lisboa B, Mohrmann S, Mobus V, Augustin D, Hoffmann G, Weiss E, Bohmer S, Kreienberg R, Du Bois A, Sattler D, Thomssen C, Kiechle M, Janicke F, Wallwiener D, Harbeck N, Kuhn W. Final analysis of the prospective WSG-AGO EC-Doc versus FEC phase III trial in intermediate-risk (pN1) early breast cancer: efficacy and predictive value of Ki67 expression. Ann Oncol. 2014 Aug;25(8):1551-7. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdu186. Epub 2014 May 14.
• Results Erber R, Gluz O, Brunner N, Kreipe HH, Pelz E, Kates R, Bartels A, Huober J, Mohrmann S, Moustafa Z, Liedtke C, Mobus V, Augustin D, Thomssen C, Janicke F, Kiechle M, Kuhn W, Nitz U, Harbeck N, Hartmann A. Predictive role of HER2/neu, topoisomerase-II-alpha, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP-1) for response to adjuvant taxane-based chemotherapy in patients with intermediate-risk breast cancer: results from the WSG-AGO EC-Doc trial. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015 Apr;150(2):279-88. doi: 10.1007/s10549-015-3310-x. Epub 2015 Feb 28.
• Gluz O, Liedtke C, Huober J, Peyro-Saint-Paul H, Kates RE, Kreipe HH, Hartmann A, Pelz E, Erber R, Mohrmann S, Mobus V, Augustin D, Hoffmann G, Thomssen C, Janicke F, Kiechle M, Wallwiener D, Kuhn W, Nitz U, Harbeck N. Comparison of prognostic and predictive impact of genomic or central grade and immunohistochemical subtypes or IHC4 in HR+/HER2- early breast cancer: WSG-AGO EC-Doc Trial. Ann Oncol. 2016 Jun;27(6):1035-1040. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdw070. Epub 2016 Feb 18.

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