Hiroyoshi Doihara
   Department   Kawasaki Medical School  Kawasaki Medical School, Department of General Surgery,
   Position   Professor with Special Assignment
Article types 原著
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Serum lipid and bone metabolism effects of Toremifene vs. Letrozole as adjuvant therapy for postmenopausal early breast cancer patients: results of a multicenter open randomized study.
Journal Formal name:Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology
Abbreviation:Cancer Chemother Pharmacol
ISSN code:14320843/03445704
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 81(2),pp.269-275
Author and coauthor Shien Tadahiko, Doihara Hiroyoshi, Sato Nobuaki, Anan Keisei, Komaki Kansei, Miyauchi Keisuke, Yanagita Yasuhiro, Fujisawa Tomomi, Mitsuyama Shoshu, Kanbayashi Chizuko, Kusama Mikihiro, Kimura Morihiko, Jinno Hiromitsu, Sano Muneaki, Ikeda Tadashi
Publication date 2018/02
Summary A prospective randomized phase II trial was conducted to evaluate the time course effects of toremifene (TOR) and letrozole (LET), as adjuvant hormone therapy, on serum lipid profiles and bone metabolism in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, postmenopausal breast cancer patients.Fifty-four postmenopausal breast cancer patients [ER positive, HER2 negative, T1-2, node metastases (n = 0-3), M0] who had undergone curative resection were enrolled. They were randomized to receive either TOR 40 mg/day or LET 2.5 mg/day as adjuvant hormone therapy. Serum lipids and bone markers were measured prior to, and again at 6, 12, and 24 months after initiation of treatment. Changes in serum lipids and bone markers were compared. Serum levels of total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were decreased compared with the baseline values at 6 months in 6.5 and 14.0% of patients, respectively, receiving TOR. Lipid levels did not change in patients administered LET. Significant differences were observed in TC and LDL-C between the two groups at 12 and 24 months. In the TOR group, serum bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BAP) was decreased by 25.0% at 12 months, and serum cross-linked N-telopeptide of type-I collagen (NTx) was decreased by 13.6% at 6 months, and these reductions were maintained for at least 24 months. In contrast, in the LET group, serum BAP did not change and NTx was increased by 16.0% at 6 months and by 18.6% at 24 months, as compared with the baseline.TOR and LET exert different effects on serum lipid profiles and bone metabolism markers. The effects of TOR, as adjuvant hormone therapy, on both lipids and bone metabolism in postmenopausal breast cancer patients are superior to those of LET.
DOI 10.1007/s00280-017-3491-6
PMID 29196963