Source: DGNews  |  Posted 9 years ago

By Adrian Burton

NICE, FRANCE -- October 21, 2002 -- Anastrozole is a good alternative to tamoxifen as first-line treatment in older women with advanced breast cancer. So say the combined results of two large trials from centres around the world presented at the 27th Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

"The aim of these two identical studies, one from North America and one from the rest of the world, was to compare, in patients with metastatic breast cancer, the efficacy of anastrozole, a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor, and tamoxifen