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An open label, randomised multicentre comparative trial of five years adjuvant exemestane treatment versus adjuvant tamoxifen followed by exemestane in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer
Source of recordUK Trials
ISRCTNISRCTN75225940
Date ISRCTN assigned01/07/2001
Local reference number(s)N/A
Public titleAn open label, randomised multicentre comparative trial of five years adjuvant exemestane treatment versus adjuvant tamoxifen followed by exemestane in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer
Scientific title
AcronymTEAM - Tamoxifen and Exemestane Adjuvant Multicentre trial
Disease/condition/study domainBreast cancer
Study hypothesisTo compare the efficacy and tolerability of exemestane versus tamoxifen followed by exemestane given in the adjuvant setting in postmenopausal women with Estrogen Receptor (ER) and/or Progesterone Receptor (PgR)-positive early breast cancer.
Design/methodologyRandomised controlled trial
Research ethics reviewNot provided at time of registration
Countries of trialUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
Participants - inclusion criteria1. Women with histologically/cytologically confirmed early adenocarcinoma of the breast, completely excised by surgery with curative intent (Ro) including:
a. Any node-positive cancer
b. Any cancer greater than or equal to 3 cm
c. Node negative cancer, grade II or III and 1 cm or greater
2. ER and/or PgR status positive
3. Postmenopausal
4. Patients on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) which was discontinued at least four weeks prior to randomisation
5. Adequate haematological, renal and hepatic function
6. Accessible for follow-up for the duration of the trial
7. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status zero, one or two
8. Written informed consent (according to International Conference on Harmonisation [ICH]/Good Clinical Practice [GCP] and local Institutional Review Board [IRB] guidelines)
9. Randomisation within ten weeks of completing surgery +/- adjuvant chemotherapy
Participants - exclusion criteria1. Positive supraclavicular nodes
2. Evidence of distant metastases (M1)
3. Patients whose chemotherapy was started more than ten weeks after completion of primary surgery
4. Patients who have received previous hormonal treatment as adjuvant treatment for breast cancer
5. Patients who have received neoadjuvant chemotherapy
6. Neoadjuvant hormone therapy more than four weeks duration prior to surgery
7. Severe osteoporosis (bisphosphonates for therapeutic use is not an exclusion criterion)
8. Uncontrolled cardiac disease including unstable angina, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) or arrhythmia requiring medical therapy or with a history of myocardial infarction within the past 3 months or any other serious concomitant disease
9. Psychiatric disorders preventing proper informed consent
10. Concomitant malignancies except for adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix or basal cell carcinoma of the skin
11. Patients with other malignancies must be disease free for at least five years
12. Concurrent participation in another clinical study (with the exception of adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy trials) involving investigational agents that may interfere with the results of the trial
13. Other serious illnesses that may interfere with subject compliance, adequate informed consent or determination of causality of adverse events
14. Patients on HRT, which was not discontinued at least four weeks prior to randomisation
15. Node-negative, grade I cancer less than 3 cm
Patient information material
Anticipated start date01/12/2001
Anticipated end date31/10/2005
Status of trialCompleted
Target number of participants1275 in UK/ROI
InterventionsRandomised to receive:
1. Tamoxifen 20 mg/day for 2.5-3 years then Exemestane 25 mg/day to complete five years
2. Exemestane 25 mg/day for five years
Primary outcome measure(s)Relapse Free Survival (RFS)
Secondary outcome measure(s)1. Overall Survival (OS)
2. Incidence of contralateral breast cancer
3. Safety and long-term tolerability of both hormonal regimens
Sources of fundingEducational grant from Pfizer
Sponsor nameThe University of Birmingham (UK)
Sponsor detailsEdgbaston
Birmingham
United Kingdom
B15 2TT
Contact nameDr Margaret Grant
Contact detailsCancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
United Kingdom
B15 2TT
Contact telephone+44 (0)121 414 3797
Contact fax+44 (0)121 414 3700
Contact emailm.r.grant@bham.ac.uk
More informationFor more up-to-date information please go to the ISRCTN link below.
Link to record in ISRCTN RegisterISRCTN75225940
Date last extracted from ISRCTN register17/04/2008
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