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Effects on quality of life of weekly docetaxel-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer: results of a single-centre randomized phase 3 trial

BACKGROUND: To evaluate whether weekly schedules of docetaxel-based chemotherapy were superior to 3-weekly ones in terms of quality of life in locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. METHODS: Patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, aged ≤ 70 years, performance status 0-2, c...

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Autores principales: Nuzzo, Francesco, Morabito, Alessandro, Gravina, Adriano, Di Rella, Francesca, Landi, Gabriella, Pacilio, Carmen, Labonia, Vincenzo, Rossi, Emanuela, De Maio, Ermelinda, Piccirillo, Maria Carmela, D'Aiuto, Giuseppe, Thomas, Renato, Rinaldo, Massimo, Botti, Gerardo, Di Bonito, Maurizio, Di Maio, Massimo, Gallo, Ciro, Perrone, Francesco, de Matteis, Andrea
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21324184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-11-75
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: To evaluate whether weekly schedules of docetaxel-based chemotherapy were superior to 3-weekly ones in terms of quality of life in locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. METHODS: Patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, aged ≤ 70 years, performance status 0-2, chemotherapy-naive for metastatic disease, were eligible. They were randomized to weekly or 3-weekly combination of docetaxel and epirubicin, if they were not treated with adjuvant anthracyclines, or docetaxel and capecitabine, if treated with adjuvant anthracyclines. Primary end-point was global quality of life change at 6-weeks, measured by EORTC QLQ-C30. With two-sided alpha 0.05 and 80% power for 35% effect size, 130 patients per arm were needed. RESULTS: From February 2004 to March 2008, 139 patients were randomized, 70 to weekly and 69 to 3-weekly arm; 129 and 89 patients filled baseline and 6-week questionnaires, respectively. Global quality of life was better in the 3-weekly arm (p = 0.03); patients treated with weekly schedules presented a significantly worsening in role functioning and financial scores (p = 0.02 and p < 0.001). Neutropenia and stomatitis were worse in the 3-weekly arm, where two toxic deaths were observed. Overall response rate was 39.1% and 33.3% in 3-weekly and weekly arms; hazard ratio of progression was 1.29 (95% CI: 0.84-1.97) and hazard ratio of death was 1.38 (95% CI: 0.82-2.30) in the weekly arm. CONCLUSIONS: In this trial, the weekly schedules of docetaxel-based chemotherapy appear to be inferior to the 3-weekly one in terms of quality of life in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00540800.