Tamoxifen for prevention of breast cancer: extended long-term follow-up of the IBIS-I breast cancer prevention trial.

Ivana Sestak, Kaija Holli, John F Forbes, E Abdi (Collaborator), E Anderson (Collaborator), C Atkinson (Collaborator), M Baum (Collaborator), J Beith (Collaborator), A Bird (Collaborator), S Birrell (Collaborator), R Blamey (Collaborator), R Blum (Collaborator), J Boyages (Collaborator), K Buser (Collaborator), I Campbell (Collaborator), S Cawthorn (Collaborator), C Chapman (Collaborator), M Chipman (Collaborator), A Coates (Collaborator), J P Collins (Collaborator)P Craft (Collaborator), J Cuzick (Collaborator), L Denton (Collaborator), J Dewar (Collaborator), M Dowsett (Collaborator), H Earl (Collaborator), D Eccles (Collaborator), R Edwards (Collaborator), G Evans (Collaborator), L Fallowfield (Collaborator), I Fentiman (Collaborator), J F Forbes (Collaborator), M Friedlander (Collaborator), J Garcia (Collaborator), W George (Collaborator), F J Gilbert (Collaborator), P Godbolt (Collaborator), A Goldhirsch (Collaborator), H Hamed (Collaborator), A Hanby (Collaborator), S Hart (Collaborator), J Hearne (Collaborator), A Henry (Collaborator), C Hirst (Collaborator), C Holcombe (Collaborator), A Howell (Collaborator), J Kirk (Collaborator), M Lansdown (Collaborator), M Lee (Collaborator), T Lennard (Collaborator), F MacNeil (Collaborator), P Maddox (Collaborator), R Mansel (Collaborator), P McAleese (Collaborator), J MacKay (Collaborator), K MacMichael (Collaborator), C Mitine (Collaborator), C Normand (Collaborator), W Odling-Smee (Collaborator), T Oivanen (Collaborator), O Pagani (Collaborator), Beata Vergine (Collaborator), T Powles (Collaborator), Z Raytor (Collaborator), B Richmond (Collaborator), J Robertson (Collaborator), R Sainsbury (Collaborator), P Sauven (Collaborator), R J Simes (Collaborator), R Stewart (Collaborator), A Stotter (Collaborator), A Thompson (Collaborator), J Toy (Collaborator), P Twentyman (Collaborator), C Underhill (Collaborator), R Ward (Collaborator), S White (Collaborator), A Wilkinson (Collaborator), S Wilkinson (Collaborator), J Williamson (Collaborator), C Wynne (Collaborator), R Kealy (Collaborator), V Gebski (Collaborator), D Lindsay (Collaborator), A Melmeth (Collaborator), A Newton (Collaborator), L Paksec (Collaborator), M Seccombe (Collaborator), R Thornto (Collaborator), Simon Cawthorne

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    Abstract

    BACKGROUND: Four previously published randomised clinical trials have shown that tamoxifen can reduce the risk of breast cancer in healthy women at increased risk of breast cancer in the first 10 years of follow-up. We report the long-term follow-up of the IBIS-I trial, in which the participants and investigators remain largely masked to treatment allocation. METHODS: In the IBIS-I randomised controlled trial, premenopausal and postmenopausal women 35-70 years of age deemed to be at an increased risk of developing breast cancer were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive oral tamoxifen 20 mg daily or matching placebo for 5 years. Patients were randomly assigned to the two treatment groups by telephone or fax according to a block randomisation schedule (permuted block sizes of six or ten). Patients and investigators were masked to treatment assignment by use of central randomisation and coded drug supply. The primary endpoint was the occurrence of breast cancer (invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ), analysed by intention to treat. Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess breast cancer occurrence and mortality. The trial is closed to recruitment and active treatment is completed, but long-term follow-up is ongoing. This trial is registered with controlledtrials.com, number ISRCTN91879928. FINDINGS: Between April 14, 1992, and March 30, 2001, 7154 eligible women recruited from genetics clinics and breast care clinics in eight countries were enrolled into the IBIS-I trial and were randomly allocated to the two treatment groups: 3579 to tamoxifen and 3575 to placebo. After a median follow up of 16.0 years (IQR 14.1-17.6), 601 breast cancers have been reported (251 [7.0%] in 3579 patients in the tamoxifen group vs 350 [9.8%] in 3575 women in the placebo group; hazard ratio [HR] 0.71 [95% CI 0.60-0.83], p
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)67-75
    Number of pages8
    JournalThe Lancet Oncology
    Volume16
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2014

    Keywords

    • breast cancer

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