Influence of hormone therapy timing intake on disease free survival (DFS) for patients with high-risk early breast cancer: Results of the UCBG-UNIRAD phase III randomized trial.

Authors

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Sylvie Giacchetti

APHP University Hopital Saint Louis, Senopole, Paris, France

Sylvie Giacchetti , Enora Laas , Thomas Bachelot , Jerome Lemonnier , Fabrice Andre , David A. Cameron , Judith Bliss , Sylvie Chabaud , Anne-Claire Hardy-Bessard , Magali Lacroix-Triki , Jean-Luc Canon , Marc Debled , Mario Campone , Paul H. Cottu , Florence Dalenc , Annabelle Ballesta , Frederique Madeleine Penault-Llorca , Fabien Reyal , Francis Lévi , Anne-Sophie Hamy

Organizations

APHP University Hopital Saint Louis, Senopole, Paris, France, Surgery Department, Institut Curie, Universite Paris Cite, Paris, France, Medical Oncology, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France, R&D Unicancer, Paris, France, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Edinburgh University Cancer Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Medical Oncology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Research and Innovation, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France, Medical Oncology, CARIO - HPCA, Plerin-Sur-Mer, France, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Medical Oncology, Grand Hopital de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium, Medical Oncology, Institut Bergonie, Bordeaux, France, Medical Oncology, Institut Cancerologie de l’Ouest, Saint-Herblain, France, Medical Oncology, Institut Curie, Universite, Paris, France, Institut Claudius Regaud, Institut Universitaire du Cancer – Oncopole, Toulouse, France, Inserm Unit 900, Institut Curie, MINES ParisTech CBIO - Centre for Computational Biology, PSL Research University, Saint Cloud, France, Pathology department, Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Surgery Department, Institut Curie, Universite Paris, Paris, France, Chronotherapy, Cancers, and Transplantation Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Saclay University, Villejuif, France, Medical Oncology, Institut Curie, Universite Paris Cite, Paris, France

Research Funding

Institutional Funding
French Ministry of Health PHRC, La Ligue contre le Cancer, Novartis

Background: Circadian rhythms regulate the cellular and molecular processes that determine treatment effects. Scarce data suggest that daily timing could influence endocrine therapy (ET) pharmacology. We prospectively tested this hypothesis within the UNIRAD adjuvant phase III trial (NCT01805271) in patients (pts) with hormone receptors positive (HR+) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) breast cancer (BC). Methods: Between June 2013 and March 2020, 1,278 pts with high-risk HR+/HER2- primary BC were randomly assigned to adjuvant ET combined with EVE or placebo. Pts were stratified according to lymph node involvement, progesterone receptor status, ET (tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors (AI)), prior neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy, and duration of ET before randomization. Throughout their participation in the trial, patients were asked to declare prospectively in a daily diary the timing of ET intake within four 6-h slots (06:00 to11:59 (morning), 12:00 to 17:59 (afternoon), 18:00 to 23:59 (evening), or 24:00 to 05:59 (night). The prognostic impact of the timing of ET and EVE/placebo on DFS was a prespecified secondary endpoint. Results: A total of 855 patients (67%) recorded ET intake daily timings (n = 401 in the EVE arm, n = 454 in the placebo arm). Morning intake was preferred by 465 pts (54%), whilst 344 pts (40%) chose evening intake, and minor proportions took ET in the afternoon (49 patients, 5%) or at night (5 patients, 1%). Pts choosing morning or afternoon intake were significantly older than those preferring evening or night intakes (mean age: morning: 56.4 y.o.; afternoon: 58.4 y.o; evening: 53.1 y.o ; night : 50.8 y.o.; p < 0.001). Only 10 patients (1.1%) reported changing ET timing during the study. With a median follow-up of 72.5 months, 118 patients relapsed (locally n = 30, metastases n = 84), and 41 patients died. In the whole population, ET intake timing was not associated with DFS (HR 0.77 [95%CI, 0.53-1.12], p = 0.17). ET intake timing effects according to the stratification factors revealed a significant interaction between its prognostic impact and ET agent (tamoxifen versus AI, p for interaction = 0.01). DFS was prolonged in those pts taking tamoxifen in the evening/night rather than in the morning/afternoon (HR = 0.43 [0.22 - 0.85], p = 0.015), while no such effect was found for those on AI (HR = 1.07 [0.68 - 1.7], p = 0.761). Such interaction remained statistically significant at multivariate analysis (HR 0.38, p = 0.003). Conclusions: Tamoxifen intake in the evening was associated with an improved DFS in high-risk HR+/HER2- breast cancer pts and could be recommended at no cost in the adjuvant setting. Clinical trial information: NCT01805271.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Breast Cancer—Local/Regional/Adjuvant

Track

Breast Cancer

Sub Track

Adjuvant Therapy

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT01805271

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 546)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.546

Abstract #

546

Poster Bd #

376

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