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A Randomized, Phase III Clinical Trial of Low-Dose Tamoxifen for Selected Patients with Molecular Low-Risk Early-Stage Breast Cancer.

Primary Objective:
To evaluate whether the recurrence-free interval (RFI) with low-dose tamoxifen is non-inferior to standard-of-care endocrine therapy among post-menopausal women with early-stage, low molecular risk breast cancer.

Secondary Objectives:
- To compare endocrine therapy nonadherence rates between treatment arms.

- To compare the incidence of adverse events between treatment arms, including osteoporosis, fracture, endometrial carcinoma, stroke, and deep vein thrombosis.

- To compare endocrine therapy-related patient-reported symptoms between treatment arms.

- To compare the invasive disease-free survival between treatment arms.

- To compare the locoregional breast cancer recurrence between treatment arms.

- To compare distant recurrence-free survival between treatment arms.

- To compare overall survival between treatment arms.

- To compare DCIS incidence (ipsilateral and contralateral) between treatment arms.

- To evaluate the association between radiotherapy modality (no radiation, partial breast radiation, and whole breast radiation) and RFI in each arm.

- To explore important measures of quality of life that would reasonably be expected to vary by study arm, including global quality of life and reasons for nonadherence.

- To compare change in mammographic density at two years between treatment arms.

Protocol Number: 042506
Phase: Phase III
Applicable Disease Sites: Breast
Drugs Involved: TAMOXIFEN
Principal Investigator: Mridula A George
Scope: National
Therapies Involved: Chemotherapy single agent systemic
Participating Institutions:
  • RWJBarnabas Health
    • Cooperman Barnabas, Livingston
    • Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City
    • Monmouth Medical Center
    • Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
    • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton
    • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Somerset
    • Trinitas Hospital and Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Rutgers University

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