TRADE: a phase II trial to assess the tolerability of abemaciclib dose escalation in early-stage HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer☆

Annals of Oncology | |

Adjuvant abemaciclib with endocrine therapy (ET) improves clinical outcomes in patients with high-risk node-positive early-stage hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative (HR-positive/HER2-negative) breast cancer (BC), based on the monarchE trial. Patients may experience tolerability issues at the standard abemaciclib dose [150 mg twice daily (b.i.d.)], potentially leading to early treatment discontinuation, particularly within the initial weeks of therapy. TRADE is a prospective, single-arm, phase…

Topics: breast-cancer, blood-cancer, clinical-trials, research