Authors: Aditya Bardia Vered Stearns
Publish Date: 2010/02/17
Volume: 120, Issue: 2, Pages: 437-439
Abstract
Adjuvant endocrine therapy remains the most important systemic intervention recommended to women with breast cancer whose tumors contain the estrogen receptor ER or progesterone receptor Results from over a dozen prospective clinical trials have consistently demonstrated that the incorporation of the third generation aromatase inhibitors AIs including anastrozole letrozole and exemestane in the adjuvant setting instead of or in sequence with tamoxifen were superior to 5 years of single agent tamoxifen in reducing breast cancerrelated relapse or death 1 In addition to a small superiority in efficacy AIs are associated with a slightly different safety profile compared to tamoxifen Biomarkers that could help predict efficacy and safety to specific endocrine interventions or even to specific agents are greatly needed and could be used to personalize various endocrine manipulations for individual women Predictive biomarkers may be tumor or host specific and may be
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