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Everolimus Posts Big Win in ER-Positive Breast Cancer
Everolimus Posts Big Win in ER-Positive Breast Cancer
P Wendling
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20110827
2011 Sept 27
Elsevier Global Medical News
Everolimus Posts Big Win in ER-Positive Breast Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2011 Sept 27, P Wendling
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News ArticleSTOCKHOLM (EGMN) - Coupling everolimus with exemestane has produced such dramatic disease control in women with advanced hormone resistant, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer that it is expected to transform the management of these patients.A preplanned interim analysis of the phase III BOLERO-2 trial found that everolimus (Afinitor) increased the primary end point of progression-free survival, by local assessment, from a median of 2.8 months with exemestane (Aromasin) alone to...