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Video: Major Independent Trial Demonstrates Significant Anticancer Benefit of Zometa(R) in Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Date:5/31/2008

ancer before it reaches an advanced stage. A tumor passes through six stages on its path to metastasizing (spreading)(4). In the laboratory, Zometa has been shown to make passage through these stages more difficult by inhibiting angiogenesis (formation of blood vessels that grow and feed cancer cells), stimulating cancer-fighting T-cells, inducing tumor cell apoptosis (programmed cell death) and increasing the activity of anticancer agents that target tumor cell metastases(5).

A growing number of clinical studies are examining the potential anticancer impact of Zometa. One of the largest of these studies, AZURE (Adjuvant Zoledronic acid to redUce REcurrence), has completed enrollment. The study will evaluate the impact of Zometa in reducing risk of cancer recurrence in 3,360 premenopausal and postmenopausal women with Stage II/III breast cancer.

Another study presented at this year's ASCO meeting evaluated the effect of Zometa on bone marrow micrometastases. The study was conducted in 120 premenopausal and postmenopausal women with Stage II/III breast cancer undergoing treatment pre- and post-surgery. For those women who were negative for disseminated cancer cells at baseline, significantly more women who took Zometa in addition to chemotherapy remained negative for disseminated cancer cells over time.

Study Details

The Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group Trial 12 (ABCSG-12) is an open-label, multicenter, Phase III study that enrolled 1,803 premenopausal women with estrogen-receptor-positive Stage I or II breast cancer, with fewer than 10 axillary lymph nodes involved. Patients were recruited for the study after curative surgery and initiation of goserelin treatment for ovarian suppression, and randomly assigned into one of four study groups: (1) anastrozole plus Zometa; (2) anastrozole alone; (3) tamoxifen plus Zometa; (4) tamoxifen alone. The treatment period was three years and the median follow-up period was an additional
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