Long-term Follow-up and Safety of Patients after an Upfront Therapy with Letrozole for Early Breast Cancer in Routine Clinical Care - The PreFace Study.

Hack, Carolin C; Maass, Nicolai; Aktas, Bahriye; Kümmel, Sherko; Thomssen, Christoph; Wolf, Christopher; Kolberg, Hans-Christian; Brucker, Cosima; Janni, Wolfgang; Dall, Peter; Schneeweiss, Andreas; Marme, Frederik; Ruebner, Matthias; Theuser, Anna-Katharin; Hofmann, Nadine M; Böhm, Sybille; Almstedt, Katrin; Kellner, Sara; Gass, Paul; Sütterlin, Marc W; ... (2024). Long-term Follow-up and Safety of Patients after an Upfront Therapy with Letrozole for Early Breast Cancer in Routine Clinical Care - The PreFace Study. Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, 84(2), pp. 185-195. Thieme 10.1055/a-2238-3153

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INTRODUCTION

Adjuvant treatment of patients with early-stage breast cancer (BC) should include an aromatase inhibitor (AI). Especially patients with a high recurrence risk might benefit from an upfront therapy with an AI for a minimum of five years. Nevertheless, not much is known about the patient selection for this population in clinical practice. Therefore, this study analyzed the prognosis and patient characteristics of postmenopausal patients selected for a five-year upfront letrozole therapy.

PATIENTS AND METHODS

From 2009 to 2011, 3529 patients were enrolled into the adjuvant phase IV PreFace clinical trial (NCT01908556). Postmenopausal hormone receptor-positive BC patients, for whom an upfront five-year therapy with letrozole (2.5 mg/day) was indicated, were eligible. Disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS) and safety in relation to patient and tumor characteristics were assessed.

RESULTS

3297 patients started letrozole therapy. The majority of patients (n = 1639, 57%) completed the five-year treatment. 34.5% of patients continued with endocrine therapy after the mandated five-year endocrine treatment. Five-year DFS rates were 89% (95% CI: 88-90%) and five-year OS rates were 95% (95% CI: 94-96%). In subgroup analyses, DFS rates were 83%, 84% and 78% for patients with node-positive disease, G3 tumor grading, and pT3 tumors respectively. The main adverse events (any grade) were pain and hot flushes (66.8% and 18.3% of patients).

CONCLUSIONS

The risk profile of postmenopausal BC patients selected for a five-year upfront letrozole therapy showed a moderate recurrence and death risk. However, in subgroups with unfavorable risk factors, prognosis warrants an improvement, which might be achieved with novel targeted therapies.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Gynaecology

UniBE Contributor:

Rauh, Claudia

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0016-5751

Publisher:

Thieme

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

13 Feb 2024 09:00

Last Modified:

01 May 2024 15:57

Publisher DOI:

10.1055/a-2238-3153

Related URLs:

PubMed ID:

38344045

Uncontrolled Keywords:

aromatase inhibitors early breast cancer hormone therapy letrozole prognosis

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/192837

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/192837

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