1–59 Sequential Preoperative or Postoperative Docetaxel Added to Preoperative Doxorubicin Plus Cyclophosphamide for Operable Breast Cancer: National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocol B-27

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-98
Author(s):  
L.A. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Operable Breast Cancer ◽  
National Surgical Adjuvant Breast ◽  
Bowel Project

The Effect on Tumor Response of Adding Sequential Preoperative Docetaxel to Preoperative Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide: Preliminary Results From National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocol B-27

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 4165-4174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry D. Bear ◽  
Stewart Anderson ◽  
Ann Brown ◽  
Roy Smith ◽  
Eleftherios P. Mamounas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Tumor Response ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Complete Response Rate ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Complete Response ◽  
Operable Breast Cancer ◽  
National Surgical Adjuvant Breast ◽  
Surgery Group ◽  
Bowel Project

Purpose: The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocol B-27 was designed to determine the effect of adding docetaxel after four cycles of preoperative doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (AC) on clinical and pathological response rates and on disease-free and overall survival of women with operable breast cancer. Patients and Methods: Women (N = 2,411) with operable primary breast cancer were randomly assigned to receive either four cycles of preoperative AC followed by surgery (group I), or four cycles of AC followed by four cycles of docetaxel, followed by surgery (group II), or four cycles of AC followed by surgery and then four cycles of docetaxel (group III). Clinical and pathologic tumor responses to preoperative therapy were assessed. Results: Mean tumor size (4.5 cm) and other key characteristics were evenly balanced among the three treatment arms. Grade 4 toxicity was observed in 10.3% of 2,400 patients during AC treatment, and in 23.4% of 1584 patients during docetaxel treatment. Compared to preoperative AC alone, preoperative AC followed by docetaxel increased the clinical complete response rate (40.1% v 63.6%; P < .001), the overall clinical response rate (85.5% v 90.7%; P < .001), the pathologic complete response rate (13.7% v 26.1%; P < .001), and the proportion of patients with negative nodes (50.8% v 58.2%; P < .001). Pathologic primary breast tumor response was a significant predictor of pathologic nodal status (P < .001). Conclusion: The addition of four cycles of preoperative docetaxel after four cycles of preoperative AC significantly increased clinical and pathologic response rates for operable breast cancer.

Breast cancer estrogen and progesterone receptor values: their distribution, degree of concordance, and relation to number of positive axillary nodes.

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 349-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Fisher ◽  
D L Wickerham ◽  
A Brown ◽  
C K Redmond
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Estrogen Receptor ◽  
Progesterone Receptor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Breast Cancers ◽  
Patient Age ◽  
National Surgical Adjuvant Breast ◽  
Axillary Nodes ◽  
Bowel Project ◽  
Estrogen And Progesterone Receptor

Increasing evidence indicates the importance of ascertaining the quantitative estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) content (in femtomoles per milligram cytosol protein) of primary breast cancers. Those values obtained from the tumors of 1,887 patients participating in National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project protocol B-09 have been analyzed to define (1) the distribution of tumor ER or PR according to patient age, (2) the distribution of tumor PR within a specific ER interval, and (3) the concordance of tumor ER and PR levels. The present findings indicate how predictive the knowledge of the amount of one receptor (e.g., ER) may be for estimating the amount of the other (PR), when the latter is unknown.

Lumpectomy and radiation therapy for the treatment of intraductal breast cancer: findings from National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-17.

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Fisher ◽  
J Dignam ◽  
N Wolmark ◽  
E Mamounas ◽  
J Costantino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Breast Cancer Incidence ◽  
Resected Specimen ◽  
Cumulative Probability ◽  
Event Free Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
National Surgical Adjuvant Breast ◽  
Bowel Project

PURPOSE In 1993, findings from a National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) trial to evaluate the worth of radiation therapy after lumpectomy concluded that the combination was more beneficial than lumpectomy alone for localized intraductal carcinoma-in-situ (DCIS). This report extends those findings. PATIENTS AND METHODS Women (N = 818) with localized DCIS were randomly assigned to lumpectomy or lumpectomy plus radiation (50 Gy). Tissue was removed so that resected specimen margins were histologically tumor-free. Mean follow-up time was 90 months (range, 67 to 130). Size and method of tumor detection were determined by central clinical, mammographic, and pathologic assessment. Life-table estimates of event-free survival and survival, average annual rates of occurrence for specific events, relative risks for event-specific end points, and cumulative probability of specific events comprising event-free survival are presented. RESULTS The benefit of lumpectomy plus radiation was virtually unchanged between 5 and 8 years of follow-up and was due to a reduction in invasive and noninvasive ipsilateral breast tumors (IBTs). Incidence of locoregional and distant events remained similar in both treatment groups; deaths were only infrequently related to breast cancer. Incidence of noninvasive IBT was reduced from 13.4% to 8.2% (P = .007), and of invasive IBT, from 13.4% to 3.9% (P < .0001). All cohorts benefited from radiation regardless of clinical or mammographic tumor characteristics. CONCLUSION Through 8 years of follow-up, our findings continue to indicate that lumpectomy plus radiation is more beneficial than lumpectomy alone for women with localized, mammographically detected DCIS. When evaluated according to the mammographic characteristics of their DCIS, all groups benefited from radiation.

Two months of doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide with and without interval reinduction therapy compared with 6 months of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil in positive-node breast cancer patients with tamoxifen-nonresponsive tumors: results from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-15.

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1483-1496 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Fisher ◽  
A M Brown ◽  
N V Dimitrov ◽  
R Poisson ◽  
C Redmond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Positive Node ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
National Surgical Adjuvant Breast ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Bowel Project ◽  
Disease Free

The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) implemented protocol B-15 to compare 2 months of Adriamycin (doxorubicin; Adria Laboratories, Columbus, OH) and cyclophosphamide (AC) with 6 months of conventional cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF) in patients with breast cancer nonresponsive to tamoxifen (TAM, T). A second aim was to determine whether AC followed in 6 months by intravenous (IV) CMF was more effective than AC without reinduction therapy. Through 3 years of follow-up, findings from 2,194 patients indicate no significant difference in disease-free survival (DFS, P = .5), distant disease-free survival (DDFS, P = .5) or survival (S, P = .8) among the three groups. Since the outcome from AC and CMF was almost identical, the issue arises concerning which regimen is more appropriate for the treatment of breast cancer patients. AC seems preferable since, following total mastectomy, AC was completed on day 63 versus day 154 for conventional CMF; patients visited health professionals three times as often for conventional CMF as for AC; women on AC received therapy on each of 4 days versus on each of 84 days for conventional CMF; and nausea-control medication was given for about 84 days to conventional CMF patients versus for about 12 days to patients on AC. The difference in the amount of alopecia between the two treatment groups was less than anticipated. While alopecia was almost universally observed following AC therapy, 71% of the CMF patients also had hair loss and, in 41%, the loss was greater than 50%. This study and NSABP B-16, which evaluates the worth of AC therapy in TAM-responsive patients, indicate the merit of 2 months of AC therapy for all positive-node breast cancer patients.

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