Title
Low-dose oral cyclophosphamide and methotrexate maintenance for hormone receptor-negative early breast cancer: International Breast Cancer Study Group Trial 22-00
Date Issued
01 October 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Colleoni M.
Gray K.P.
Gelber S.
Láng I.
Thürlimann B.
Gianni L.
Abdi E.A.
Linderholm B.K.
Puglisi F.
Tondini C.
Kralidis E.
Eniu A.
Cagossi K.
Rauch D.
Chirgwin J.
Gelber R.D.
Regan M.M.
Coates A.S.
Price K.N.
Viale G.
Goldhirsch A.
Publisher(s)
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the benefit of low-dose cyclophosphamide and methotrexate (CM) maintenance, which previously demonstrated antitumor activity and few adverse effects in advanced breast cancer, in early breast cancer. Patients and Methods: International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG) Trial 22-00, a randomized phase III clinical trial, enrolled 1,086 women (1,081 intent-to-treat) from November 2000 to December 2012. Women with estrogen receptor- and progesterone receptor-negative (< 10% positive cells by immunohistochemistry) early breast cancer any nodal and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status, were randomly assigned anytime between primary surgery and 56 days after the first day of last course of adjuvant chemotherapy to CM maintenance (cyclophosphamide 50 mg/day orally continuously and methotrexate 2.5 mg twice/day orally on days 1 and 2 of every week for 1 year) or to no CM. The primary end point was disease-free survival (DFS), which included invasive recurrences, second (breast and nonbreast) malignancies, and deaths. Results: After a median of 6.9 years of follow-up, DFS was not significantly better for patients assigned to CM maintenance compared with patients assigned to no CM, both overall (hazard ratio [HR], 0.84; 95% CI, 0.66 to 1.06; P = .14) and in triple-negative (TN) disease (n = 814; HR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.60 to 1.06). Patients with TN, node-positive disease had a nonstatistically significant reduced HR (n = 340; HR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.49 to 1.05). Seventy-one (13%) of 542 patients assigned to CM maintenance did not start CM. Of 473 patients who received at least one CM maintenance dose (including two patients assigned to no CM), 64 (14%) experienced a grade 3 or 4 treatment-related adverse event; elevated serum transaminases was the most frequently reported (7%), followed by leukopenia (2%). Conclusion: CM maintenance did not produce a significant reduction in DFS events in hormone receptor-negative early breast cancer. The trend toward benefit observed in the TN, node-positive subgroup supports additional exploration of this strategy in the TN, higher-risk population.
Start page
3400
End page
3408
Volume
34
Issue
28
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geriatría, Gerontología Oncología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84990043408
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Clinical Oncology
ISSN of the container
0732183X
Sponsor(s)
Funded by the International Breast Cancer Study Group, participating centers, and for central coordination, data management, and statistics by the Swedish Cancer League, The Cancer Council Australia, Australia and New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group, the Frontier Science and Technology Research Foundation, the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK), the Swiss Cancer League/Oncosuisse, and the United States National Cancer Institute (Grant No. CA-75362). Beat Thürlimann Veridex (Inst), OncoGenex (Inst), Pfizer (Inst), Ipsen (Inst), Novartis (Inst), Merck (Inst), Ferring (Inst), Celgene (Inst), AstraZeneca (Inst) We thank the patients, physicians, nurses, and data managers who participated in the International Breast Cancer Study Group trials. We also thank the St Gallen participants from the Foundation for Clinical Cancer Research of Eastern Switzerland for their support. We thank Judah Folkman for the many useful suggestions during the design of the trial and Bob Kerbel and Francesco Bertolini for their thoughtful remarks.
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