A Prospective Observational Study of Compliance in the Patients Receiving Aromatase Inhibitor as an Adjuvant Therapy in Postmenopausal Early Breast Cancer
Inclusion Criteria:
- Provision of written informed consent
- Patients with early breast cancer who are scheduled to receive first-line adjuvant
endocrine therapy with aromatase inhibitor under the routine clinical practice
- Histologically or cytologically proven to be HR+(ER or PR +)
- Postmenopausal woman, defined as a woman fulfilling any of the following criteria(by
the local guideline):
- Age >= 50 years
- Age < 50 years with amenorrhoea > 12 months and an intact uterus
- FSH levels within postmenopausal range (over 30-40 IU/ml), or
- Having undergone a bilateral oophorectomy.
- No other concomitant endocrine therapy such as estrogen therapy or selective
estrogen receptor modulators
Exclusion Criteria:
- Recurrence of breast cancer
- Known hypersensitivity to aromatase inhibitor or to any of the excipients
- Any severe concomitant condition which makes it undesirable for the patient to
participate in the trial or which would jeopardize compliance with the trial protocol
- Previous inclusion in the present study
- Participation in a clinical study during the last 30 days