Obesity and risk of recurrence or death after adjuvant endocrine therapy with letrozole or tamoxifen in the breast international group 1-98 trial

Marianne Ewertz, Kathryn P Gray, Meredith M Regan, Bent Ejlertsen, Karen N Price, Beat Thürlimann, Hervé Bonnefoi, John F Forbes, Robert J Paridaens, Manuela Rabaglio, Richard D Gelber, Marco Colleoni, István Láng, Ian E Smith, Alan S Coates, Aron Goldhirsch, Henning T Mouridsen

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Abstract

PURPOSE: To examine the association of baseline body mass index (BMI) with the risk of recurrence or death in postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer receiving adjuvant tamoxifen or letrozole in the Breast International Group (BIG) 1-98 trial at 8.7 years of median follow-up.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: This report analyzes 4,760 patients with breast cancer randomly assigned to 5 years of monotherapy with letrozole or tamoxifen in the BIG 1-98 trial with available information on BMI at randomization. Multivariable Cox modeling assessed the association of BMI with disease-free survival, overall survival (OS), breast cancer-free interval, and distant recurrence-free interval and tested for treatment-by-BMI interaction. Median follow-up was 8.7 years.

RESULTS: Seventeen percent of patients have died. Obese patients (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2)) had slightly poorer OS (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.19; 95% CI, 0.99 to 1.44) than patients with normal BMI (< 25 kg/m(2)), whereas no trend in OS was observed in overweight (BMI 25 to < 30 kg/m(2)) versus normal-weight patients (HR = 1.02; 95% CI, 0.86 to 1.20). Treatment-by-BMI interactions were not statistically significant. The HRs for OS comparing obese versus normal BMI were HR = 1.22 (95% CI, 0.93 to 1.60) and HR = 1.18 (95% CI, 0.91 to 1.52) in the letrozole and tamoxifen groups, respectively.

CONCLUSION: There was no evidence that the benefit of letrozole over tamoxifen differed according to patients' BMI.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Vol/bind30
Udgave nummer32
Sider (fra-til)3967-75
Antal sider9
ISSN0732-183X
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 10 nov. 2012
Udgivet eksterntJa

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