In women with node-positive breast cancer, exploratory overall survival analysis favored leuprorelin over CMF.
In plain wordsIn women with node-positive breast cancer, exploratory survival analysis favored leuprorelin over CMF.
- Peptide
- Leuprolide
- Outcome
- IncreaseOverall survival
- Study
n = 599
- Comparator
- Cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil
- Analysis
- Exploratory
- Outcome group
- Mortality · Cancer
- Studied dose
- Every-3-month depotAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Hazard ratio
- 1.5
- reported survival comparison
- 95% CI
- 1.13 to 1.99
- hazard ratio
- P
- 0.005
- comparison
Source sentences
Exploratory overall survival analysis favored LAD-3M (HR, 1.50; 95% CI, 1.13 to 1.99; P = .005).
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
This randomized phase III trial was performed to compare the 3-monthly depot LHRH agonist leuprorelin acetate (LAD-3M; n = 299) and chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF; n = 300) in pre- or perimenopausal patients with ER-positive, node-positive breast cancer.