Regulatory approval

Published by the Health Service Executive.

The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has approved letrozole as a treatment option for the extended adjuvant treatment of patients who are postmenopausal women with hormone-dependent-invasive breast cancer who have received prior adjuvant treatment for 5 years.

This is written in the approval document as:

Extended adjuvant treatment of hormone-dependent-invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have received prior adjuvant endocrine therapy for 5 years.

Citation

Letrozole Monotherapy, 2020, version number 3, NCCP National SACT Regimen, NCCP, viewed 21/07/2024, https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/profinfo/chemoprotocols/breast/371.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, PR positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Letrozole
HSE (1) ER positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Letrozole
HSE (1) PR positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Letrozole