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Iressa shows promise for treatment of metastatic breast cancer when combined with hormonal therapy
Date:5/16/2008

agent or when combined with chemotherapy, were mostly negative.

These negative findings impacted the accrual of the Arimidex-Iressa breast cancer study, said Cristofanilli. The study fell well short of its accrual goal of 174 women.

"Still, there's significant clinical relevance to our findings. Of course, I would advise that physicians not rush to put metastatic breast cancer patients who are hormone receptor positive and estrogen receptor negative on other drugs in this class that are readily available," said Cristofanilli. "Rather, this study should serve as a proof-of-concept. With our results, there should be a renewed interest in this class of drugs and hopefully follow-up studies in the adjuvant setting will be conducted."


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Contact: Laura Sussman
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713-745-2457
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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