Oncotype DX® is likely to become more widely used in Europe as well as in Switzerland. The test is currently not reimbursed by the Swiss health insurances. The proposed study will investigate to what extent adjuvant treatment recommendations in breast cancer patients with an ER-positive tumor, made by Swiss tumor boards, are based on conventional factors, and whether the recommendations would change, when RS results from the Oncotype DX® test were available. In addition this study approaches the dilemma of adding adjuvant CT to adjuvant endocrine therapy in a systematic fashion. In this study, the St. Gallen consensus 2009 (with a minor update from the 2011 consensus, is used to predefine the patients suitable for endocrine therapy or chemo-endocrine therapy. Once results of this study are available they may help to better integrate Oncotype DX® with other factors. Currently, it is unclear how the different factors should be integrated into one recommendation. This study will provide data on the usefulness of this test for the two patient groups which are suitable for hormone therapy only and for those who are considered for hormone plus chemotherapy.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
229
Kantonsspital Baden
Baden, Switzerland
Universitaetsspital-Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana
Bellinzona, Switzerland
Klinik Engeried / Praxis Oncocare
Bern, Switzerland
Inselspital, Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Spitalzentrum Biel
Biel, Switzerland
Kantonsspital Graubünden
Chur, Switzerland
Kantonsspital Frauenfeld / Brustzentrum Thurgau
Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Kantonsspital Freiburg
Fribourg, Switzerland
Kantonsspital Liestal
Liestal, Switzerland
...and 9 more locations
The decision change between the first and second tumor board adjuvant treatment recommendation
Time frame: 1 month
The decision change between first and second shared decision about adjuvant treatment
Time frame: 3 weeks
The decision change between first shared decision and treatment actually given
Time frame: Between 1 and 3 months
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