Duration of Adjuvant Aromatase-Inhibitor Therapy in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer
Postmenopausal women with hormone-receptor–positive breast cancer who had received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy were randomly assigned to an additional 2 years or 5 years of therapy with the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole. No between-group differences were noted in disease-free survival, b...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The New England journal of medicine 2021-07, Vol.385 (5), p.395-405 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Postmenopausal women with hormone-receptor–positive breast cancer who had received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy were randomly assigned to an additional 2 years or 5 years of therapy with the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole. No between-group differences were noted in disease-free survival, but patients in the 5-year group had more bone fractures. |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJMoa2104162 |