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Product Centers | AROMASIN(R) (exemestane tablets)
 
AROMASIN(R) (exemestane tablets) Indication Statement AROMASIN is indicated for adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with estrogen-receptor positive early breast cancer who have received two to three years of tamoxifen and are switched to AROMASIN for completion of a total of five consecutive years of adjuvant hormonal therapy. AROMASIN is indicated for the treatment of advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women whose disease has progressed following tamoxifen therapy.

Key Reprints
Please see below for a list of relevant AROMASIN literature, including clinical study reprints. Click on the title to download.

Survival and safety of exemestane versus tamoxifen after 2-3 years' tamoxifen treatment (intergroup exemestane study): a randomised controlled trial
Coombes RC et al.  LANCET. 2007.
A double-blind randomized trial to test whether, after two to three years of tamoxifen therapy, switching to exemestane was more effective than continuing tamoxifen therapy for the remainder of the 5 years of treatment.

A randomized trial of exemestane after two to three years of tamoxifen therapy in postmenopausal women with primary breast cancer
Coombes RC et al. N Engl J Med. 2004.
An international, intergroup, phase III, randomized, double-blind trial comparing the efficacy and safety of continued adjuvant tamoxifen therapy with that of exemestane therapy in postmenopausal women with primary breast cancer who remain free of disease after receiving adjuvant tamoxifen therapy for two to three years.

Exemestane is superior to megestrol acetate after tamoxifen failure in postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer: results of a phase III randomized double-blind trial.
Kaufmann M et al. J Clin Oncol. 2006.
This phase III, double-blind, randomized multicenter study evaluated the efficacy, pharmacodynamics, and safety of the oral aromatase inactivator exemestane versus megestrol acetate in postmenopausal women with progressive advanced breast cancer who experienced failure of tamoxifen.

Progress and promise: highlights of the international expert censensus on the primary therapy of early breast cancer 2007
Goldhirsch A et al. Ann Oncol. 2007.
Summary of the 10th St Gallen expert censensus meeting, which redefined and extended a target-oriented approach to adjuvant systemic therapy of early breast cancer.

Effects of exemestane administered for 2 years versus placebo on bone mineral density, bone biomarkers, and plasma lipids in patients with surgically resected early breast cancer
Lonning PE et al. N Engl J Med. 2004.
A double-blind study researching the effect of exemestane on bone mass density on postmenopausal women with low-risk, surgically treated early breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ.

American Society of Clinical Oncology Technology Assessment on the use of aromatase inhibitors as adjuvant therapy for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: status report 2004 Winer et al. J Clin Oncol. 2005.
An update to the ASCO technology assessment on adjuvant use of aromatase inhibitors, using the results of four phase III randomized adjuvant trials.

View more reprints and other AROMASIN-related material in the Clinical Library.

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