More than 12,000 people were newly diagnosed with breast cancer over a five-year period between 2016 and 2020, according to the Singapore Cancer Registry, with yearly numbers on the rise. More than nine out of 10 cases are detected at an early stage.
“High-risk EBC patients are traditionally given adjuvant chemotherapy as well as at least five years adjuvant anti-hormonal therapy in an attempt to eradicate micrometastases and reduce risk of recurrence,” says Prof Lee, who is also with the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
Abemaciclib is indicated for adjuvant treatment of adult patients with hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative, node-positive early breast cancer at high risk of recurrence. In hormone receptor positive breast cancer, the cells use oestrogen or progesterone, or both, to grow and multiply. HER2-negative means that the cancerous cells do not contain high levels of a protein known as HER2.
The relapse rate was 14.2 per cent at four years for those on both anti-hormonal therapy and abemaciclib, and a higher 20.6 per cent for patients receiving just anti-hormonal therapy. The drug was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in October 2021 to treat high-risk EBC, and is accepted as an option for such patients by international cancer treatment guidelines. The drug has also been approved by the Health Sciences Authority for high-risk EBC in August 2022.
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