[Three patients with local recurrence of ER-positive breast cancer for whom anastrozole was clinically effective]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2013 Mar;40(3):361-3.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We treated three postmenopausal female patients with unresectable local recurrence from breast cancer. All pathological diagnoses of the local recurrence lesions were ER-positive breast cancer. For treatment, we administered anastrozole to these three patients. One has been stable disease for 25 months after taking anastrozole. Another has also showed stable disease for 18 months, and the last patient has been a partial response. We performed a biopsy from a recurring lesion on these three patients, and made a diagnosis of ER-positive breast cancer. This strategy of unresectable local recurrence revealed that these three patients could have had a stable condition for a long duration by taking anastrozole.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Anastrozole
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal / therapeutic use*
  • Biopsy
  • Breast Neoplasms / chemistry
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / chemistry
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / drug therapy*
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / pathology
  • Nitriles / therapeutic use*
  • Postmenopause
  • Receptors, Estrogen / analysis
  • Triazoles / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
  • Nitriles
  • Receptors, Estrogen
  • Triazoles
  • Anastrozole