title: [Safety and compliance with UFT (tegafur and uracil) alone and in combination with hormone therapy in patients with breast cancer].
abstract: Recently, some new anticancer agents and hormonal agents can be used to treat breast cancer, and more patients are administering combinations of these drugs in clinical practice. Tegafur and Uracil (UFT) have been widely used for the postoperative chemotherapy of breast cancer, and often combined with hormonal agents. However, due consideration has not been given to safety and compliance of the combined use of UFT and aromatase inhibitor (AI). We therefore studied the safety and compliance with UFT alone and in combination with the hormonal agents tamoxifen or anastrozole as postoperative therapy in postmenopausal women with breast cancer. Our results confirmed that longterm postoperative therapy with UFT alone was feasible, provided that early adverse events are carefully monitored. Combined therapy was not associated with a significant increase in the incidence of adverse events or a decrease in compliance, even in older adult patients. Therefore, we consider UFT plus a hormonal agent (especially anastrozole) to be a treatment option for patients with HER2-negative highly or incompletely endocrine responsive disease who require relatively moderate chemotherapy or for older adult patients who require treatment with low toxicity.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgical Oncology, Osaka University Medical School.
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Shinzaburo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noguchi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000077384:Anastrozole; D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009570:Nitriles / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017698:Postmenopause; D013629:Tamoxifen / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects; D005641:Tegafur / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014230:Triazoles / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects; D014498:Uracil / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal; D009570:Nitriles; D014230:Triazoles; D013629:Tamoxifen; D005641:Tegafur; D000077384:Anastrozole; D014498:Uracil