Regulatory approval

Published by the Health Service Executive.

The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has approved anastrozole as a treatment option for extended adjuvant treatment of patients who are postmenopausal women with hormone-dependent-invasive breast cancer who have received 2 to 3 years of adjuvant tamoxifen.

This is written in the approval document as:

Extended adjuvant treatment of hormone-dependent-invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have received 2 to 3 years of adjuvant tamoxifen.

Citation

Anastrozole Monotherapy, 2020, version number 4, NCCP National SACT Regimen, NCCP, viewed 21/07/2024, https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/profinfo/chemoprotocols/breast/254.pdf

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organization(s) Biomarker(s) Cancer type Therapy(ies)
HSE (1) ER positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Anastrozole
HSE (1) PR positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Anastrozole
HSE (1) ER positive, PR positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Anastrozole