Adjuvant tamoxifen - longer against shorter
Adjuvant tamoxifen longer against shorter (ATLAS) clinical trial in early breast cancer. Reliable assessment of the efficacy and safety of prolonging the use of adjuvant tamoxifen: a large, simple, randomised study.
Breast Cancer Trials
20,000 participants
Jul 1, 1996
Interventional
Conditions
Summary
Trials of adjuvant tamoxifen in women with early breast cancer have demonstrated a highly significant improvement in 10-year survival. However it is not yet known how long women with early breast cancer should continue to take adjuvant tamoxifen. The ATLAS trial will determine if it is better to stop taking tamoxifen after 5 years, or continue taking it for another 5 years (10 years in total).
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- Women who have received any type of curative surgery for early breast cancer are eligible (irrespective of the original histological type of the disease, nodal status, or whether the tumour was estrogen receptor positive or negative) so long as the woman appears currently to be free of breast cancer and is receiving tamoxifen and where both the woman and her doctor are uncertain whether to continue with tamoxifen.
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Interventions
Patients enter the trial after completing approximately 5 years of tamoxifen for early breast cancer and are randomised to either continue tamoxifen for a further 5 years or stop tamoxifen. The dosage of tamoxifen is recommended at 20mg.day orally unless the patient's clinician prefers a different dosage. Patients will continue to be followed for at least 5 years after completing treatment.
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ACTRN12606000533594