The purpose of this study is to learn whether a shorter-duration, low-dose tamoxifen regimen can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer or breast cancer recurrence in post-menopausal women who are at increased risk for breast cancer.
The patients to be entered in this protocol will be post-menopausal women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), atypical ductal hyperplasia, and atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH) OR post-menopausal women with an elevated 5-year Gail model risk (\> 1.66%) but with no prior history of breast intraepithelial or invasive cancers Potential subjects will be recruited by the treating investigator and approached to participate in the study during consultation for the treatment and management of their disease as an alternative treatment option. Subjects from all racial/ethnic groups are eligible for this study if they meet the eligibility criteria
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
250
Low-dose tamoxifen will be administered at 10 mg orally every other day for 18 months.
Low dose Tamoxifen for 18 months.
Rutgers Cancer Institute
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Low Dose Tamoxifen
To evaluate the efficacy of a de-escalated, 18-month regimen of low-dose tamoxifen (10 mg every other day) in reducing the risk of disease recurrence or invasive breast cancer in post-menopausal women with breast intraepithelial neoplasia or an elevated 5-year Gail model risk.
Time frame: 18 Months
Evaluation of Tamoxifen Tolerability
Incidence of endometrial cancer or thromembolic events.
Time frame: 18 months
To evaluate the Incidence of other invasive events
Incidence of LCIS or atypical hyperplasia in ipsilateral or contralateral breast.
Time frame: 18 months
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