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Annals of Oncology

Volume 24, Issue 5, May 2013, Pages 1219-1225
Annals of Oncology

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breast cancer
Docetaxel–cisplatin might be superior to docetaxel–capecitabine in the first-line treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer

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Abstract

Background

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) may be more sensitive to platinum. This study was to compare platinum-based regimen with nonplatinum regimen in the first-line treatment of advanced TNBC.

Patients and methods

Eligible metastatic TNBC (mTNBC) women without prior treatment for advanced disease were randomized (1 : 1) to receive either docetaxel–cisplatin (TP) or docetaxel –capecitabine (TX) q3w for up to 6 cycles, until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. The primary end point was objective response rate (ORR) and the secondary end points included progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). In total 53 patients were enrolled.

Results

The median follow-up was 24 months. ORR was higher in the TP group than in the TX group (63.0% versus 15.4%, P = 0.001). PFS was more than doubled (10.9 months versus 4.8 months, P < 0.001) and median OS was also greatly improved (32.8 months versus 21.5 months, P = 0.027). Toxic effects were not different except G3/4 vomiting and G2/3 hand-foot syndrome.

Conclusions

This study suggested that cisplatin-based chemotherapy was superior to capecitabine-based regimen in the first-line treatment of mTNBC, as measured by ORR, PFS and OS. Further large-scale study should be warranted. These results are not sufficient to change clinical practice.

Keywords

capecitabine
cisplatin
mBC
triple-negative

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Abstract of this paper was presented in the 34th San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 2011.