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The Food and Drug Administration has approved fulvestrant (Faslodex) as monotherapy for women with hormone receptor–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative (HR+/HER2–) advanced breast cancer who are postmenopausal and previously untreated.
Approval was based on improved progression-free survival (PFS) in the phase 3 FALCON trial of 462 postmenopausal women with HR+/HER2– metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer who had not previously received hormonal therapy, drug maker AstraZeneca said in a press release.
The most common adverse events were arthralgia (16.7% of patients on fulvestrant vs. 10.3% on anastrozole), and hot flushes/flashes (11.4% vs. 10.3%).
Grade 3 or greater adverse events occurred in 22.4% vs. 17.7%. Deaths from adverse events occurred in six patients on fulvestrant vs. seven on anastrozole, according to results published in The Lancet.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved fulvestrant (Faslodex) as monotherapy for women with hormone receptor–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative (HR+/HER2–) advanced breast cancer who are postmenopausal and previously untreated.
Approval was based on improved progression-free survival (PFS) in the phase 3 FALCON trial of 462 postmenopausal women with HR+/HER2– metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer who had not previously received hormonal therapy, drug maker AstraZeneca said in a press release.
The most common adverse events were arthralgia (16.7% of patients on fulvestrant vs. 10.3% on anastrozole), and hot flushes/flashes (11.4% vs. 10.3%).
Grade 3 or greater adverse events occurred in 22.4% vs. 17.7%. Deaths from adverse events occurred in six patients on fulvestrant vs. seven on anastrozole, according to results published in The Lancet.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved fulvestrant (Faslodex) as monotherapy for women with hormone receptor–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative (HR+/HER2–) advanced breast cancer who are postmenopausal and previously untreated.
Approval was based on improved progression-free survival (PFS) in the phase 3 FALCON trial of 462 postmenopausal women with HR+/HER2– metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer who had not previously received hormonal therapy, drug maker AstraZeneca said in a press release.
The most common adverse events were arthralgia (16.7% of patients on fulvestrant vs. 10.3% on anastrozole), and hot flushes/flashes (11.4% vs. 10.3%).
Grade 3 or greater adverse events occurred in 22.4% vs. 17.7%. Deaths from adverse events occurred in six patients on fulvestrant vs. seven on anastrozole, according to results published in The Lancet.