Thursday, 5 July 2018

Ribociclib plus endocrine therapy for premenopausal women with hormone-receptor-positive, advanced breast cancer (MONALEESA-7): a randomised phase 3 trial



 by Debu Tripathy, Seock-Ah Im, Marco Colleoni, Fabio Franke, Aditya Bardia, Nadia Harbeck, Sara A Hurvitz, Louis Chow, Joohyuk Sohn, Keun Seok Lee, Saul Campos-Gomez, Rafael Villanueva Vazquez, Kyung Hae Jung, K Govind Babu, Paul Wheatley-Price, Michelino De Laurentiis, Young-Hyuck Im, Sherko Kuemmel, Nagi El-Saghir, Mei-Ching Liu, Gary Carlson, Gareth Hughes, Ivan Diaz-Padilla, Caroline Germa, Samit Hirawat, Yen-Shen Lu  

The Lancet Oncology Vol 19, No. 7, p904-915, July 2018

Ribociclib plus endocrine therapy improved progression-free survival compared with placebo plus endocrine therapy, and had a manageable safety profile in patients with premenopausal, HR-positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer. The combination could represent a new first-line treatment option for these patients.