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Ovarian function suppression (OFS) combined with tamoxifen (T) is associated with a significantly better 8-year disease-free survival (DFS) than T alone in premenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive early breast cancer, according to findings presented at the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.1

Patients who did not receive chemotherapy had a low risk of distant metastasis at 8 years, even with tamoxifen alone, added Gini Fleming, MD, of the International Breast Cancer Study Group.

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For the phase 3 SOFT trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00066690), researchers randomly assigned premenopausal patients to receive 5 years of T (1018 patients), T + OFS (1015 patients), or exemestane (E) + OFS (1014 patients).

The DFS for patients assigned to T + OFS was superior to T (hazard ratio [HR], 0.76; 95% CI: 0.62-0.93; P = .009); 8-year DFS was 83.2% vs 78.9%, respectively.

For patients who received prior chemotherapy, the 8-year DFS rate was 76.7% with T + OFS vs 71.4% with T; for patients who received no prior chemotherapy, the 8-year DFS rate was 90.6% vs 87.4%, respectively.

“The no-chemo cohort remains at low risk of distant recurrence with T alone; 12 of 24 deaths were in the setting of no distant recurrence,” Dr Fleming said.

There was a small overall survival benefit seen with T + OFS vs T (8-year OS, 93.3% vs 91.5%, respectively).

Toxicity was more severe for women receiving T + OFS than with T (grade 3 or worse adverse events, 32% vs 25%, respectively). Early tamoxifen cessation was reported for 19% of patients in the T + OFS group and 22% of those in the T group.

Further follow-up should help to clarify the safety and benefits of OFS for late breast cancer OS, Dr Fleming said.

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Reference

  1. Fleming G, Francis PA, Láng I, et al. Randomized comparison of adjuvant tamoxifen (T) plus ovarian function suppression (OFS) versus tamoxifen in premenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) early breast cancer (BC): update of the SOFT trial. Oral presentation at: 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; December 5-9, 2017; San Antonio, TX.

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