Overall Survival with Fulvestrant plus Anastrozole in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Abstract:BACKGROUNDWe previously reported prolonged progression-free survival and marginally prolonged overall survival among postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer who had been randomly assigned to receive the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole plus the selective estrogen-receptor down-regulator fulvestrant, as compared with anastrozole alone, as first-line therapy. We now report final survival outcomes.
METHODSWe randomly assigned patients to receive either anastrozole or fulvest… Show more
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