Capecitabine in Combination With Aromatase Inhibitor Versus Aromatase Inhibitors, in Hormonal Receptor Positive Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients, Randomized Controlled Study

Summary

Women with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer who are hormone receptor positive are candidates for first line hormonal therapy including aromatase inhibitors. In the past few years new combination therapies became available as fulvastrant or palbociclib with letrezole; increasing the progression free survival (PFS). A retrospective study showed that combination of capecitabine with aromatase inhibitors increase PFS as 1st and 2nd line line treatment another prospective study showed the same results. The aim of our study is confirm such data by a randomized controlled trial.

Timeline

Start

2018-08-30

Primary completion

2020-08

Completion

2021-02

Publications

• Background Alvarado Miranda, A. et al. (2012) 'Combination treatment with aromatase inhibitor and capecitabine as first- or second-line treatment in metastatic breast cancer.', Journal of Clinical Oncology. American Society of Clinical Oncology, 30(15_suppl), pp. e11016-e11016. doi: 10.1200/jco.2012.30.15_suppl.e11016.
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• Background Ferlay J, Soerjomataram I, Dikshit R, Eser S, Mathers C, Rebelo M, Parkin DM, Forman D, Bray F. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012. Int J Cancer. 2015 Mar 1;136(5):E359-86. doi: 10.1002/ijc.29210. Epub 2014 Oct 9.
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• Background Baselga J, Campone M, Piccart M, Burris HA 3rd, Rugo HS, Sahmoud T, Noguchi S, Gnant M, Pritchard KI, Lebrun F, Beck JT, Ito Y, Yardley D, Deleu I, Perez A, Bachelot T, Vittori L, Xu Z, Mukhopadhyay P, Lebwohl D, Hortobagyi GN. Everolimus in postmenopausal hormone-receptor-positive advanced breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2012 Feb 9;366(6):520-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1109653. Epub 2011 Dec 7.
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• Background Shankar A, Roy S, Rath GK, Julka PK, Kamal VK, Malik A, Patil J, Jeyaraj PA, Mahajan MK. Aromatase Inhibition and Capecitabine Combination as 1st or 2nd Line Treatment for Metastatic Breast Cancer - a Retrospective Analysis. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2015;16(15):6359-64. doi: 10.7314/apjcp.2015.16.15.6359.
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