Raising the
Bar: Advances in Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy
OBJECTIVES
•
Describe the different treatment schema incorporating aromatase
inhibitors into the adjuvant therapy of postmenopausal women with
early stage breast cancer
• Describe the clinical implications
and importance of delaying the time to progression of metastatic
disease
• Describe the various clinical outcomes
that have been reported from large, randomized adjuvant trials that
have evaluated aromatase inhibitors either alone or in sequence
with tamoxifen
FACULTY
Ruth
O’Regan, MD Winship Cancer Institute of
Emory University
Douglas Merkel, MD Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Moderator
William Gradishar, MD Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive
Cancer Center of Northwestern University