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Cyclophosphamide, Methotrexate, and Fluorouracil Versus Tamoxifen Plus Ovarian Suppression as Adjuvant Treatment of Estrogen Receptor–Positive Pre-/Perimenopausal Breast Cancer Patients: Results of the Italian Breast Cancer Adjuvant Study Group 02 Randomized Trial

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The combination of tamoxifen with ovarian suppression seems to be safe and to yield comparable results relative to standard CMF, and few patients who developed benign gynecologic changes in either group.
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PURPOSE: To compare the efficacy of chemotherapy versus that of tamoxifen plus ovarian suppression in pre-/perimenopausal estrogen receptor–positive patients with early breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients were randomly assigned to receive either six cycles of a standard regimen of cyclophosphamide 100 mg/m2 orally days 1 to 14, methotrexate 40 mg/m2 intravenously (IV) days 1 and 8, and fluorouracil 600 mg/m2 IV days 1 and 8 (CMF), with all drugs restarted on day 29, or 5 years of tamoxifen, 30 mg/d, plus ovarian suppression with surgical oophorectomy, ovarian irradiation, or monthly goserelin 3.6-mg injections. Disease-free survival was the main study end point. Overall survival and toxicity were additional end points. RESULTS: Between 1989 and 1997, 120 patients were assigned to CMF and 124 to tamoxifen and ovarian suppression (oophorectomy, n = 6; ovarian irradiation, n = 31; and goserelin injections, n = 87). At the time of analysis (median follow-up time, 76 months; range, 9 to 121 months), ...

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Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

TL;DR: In this article, the product-limit (PL) estimator was proposed to estimate the proportion of items in the population whose lifetimes would exceed t (in the absence of such losses), without making any assumption about the form of the function P(t).
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Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. analysis and examples.

TL;DR: Efficient methods of analysis of randomized clinical trials in which the authors wish to compare the duration of survival among different groups of patients are described.
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Reporting results of cancer treatment.

TL;DR: Recommendations have been developed for standardized approaches to the recording of baseline data relating to the patient, the tumor, laboratory and radiologic data, the reporting of treatment, grading of acute and subacute toxicity, reporting of response, recurrence and disease‐free interval, and reporting results of therapy.
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Tamoxifen for early breast cancer: An overview of the randomised trials

TL;DR: The absolute improvement in recurrence was greater during the first 5 years, whereas the improvement in survival grew steadily larger throughout the first 10 years, and these benefits appeared to be largely irrespective of age, menopausal status, daily tamoxifen dose, and of whether chemotherapy had been given to both groups.
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Tamoxifen for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomised trials. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group

Anthony Howell
- 16 May 1998 - 
TL;DR: There have been many randomised trials of adjuvant tamoxifen among women with early breast cancer, and an updated overview of their results is presented in this paper, which approximately doubles the amount of evidence from trials of about 5 years of tamoxifier and, taking all trials together, on events occurring more than 5 years after randomisation.
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