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May 29, 2026Journal of Clinical Oncology0 citations

Overall survival (OS) in premenopausal ER+/PR+, HER2− breast cancer (BC) treated with endocrine therapy (ET) ± chemotherapy (CT): A National Cancer Database (NCDB) analysis.

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LLLan LeiMCMadison T. CanningAMAngelo Marra

Key Points

  • This research aims to evaluate the impact of endocrine therapy alone versus combined with chemotherapy on overall survival in premenopausal women with specific breast cancer subtypes.
  • Analyzed NCDB data for women under 50 with ER+/PR+, HER2-, stage I-III breast cancer from 2005-2022.
  • Compared overall survival between treatment groups (endocrine therapy alone versus combined with chemotherapy) using log-rank test and multivariable Cox models.
  • Evaluated 15,591 women and stratified by nodal status and recurrence score category.
  • In N0/intermediate RS group, 5-year overall survival was 98.9% for ET+CT vs 98.7% for ET alone (p=0.40).
  • In N1/low RS group, 5-year overall survival was 98.5% for ET+CT vs 98.6% for ET alone (p=0.85).
  • No significant difference in overall survival was found across all groups (all p>0.05), confirming ET alone and ET+CT had similar outcomes.

Abstract

519 Background: The comparative benefit of ET alone vs ET+CT in premenopausal women with stage I-III ER+/PR+, HER2- BC remains uncertain. Although Oncotype DX recurrence score (RS) guides CT use, management of premenopausal patients (pts) with low/intermediate RS remains challenging. The ongoing NRG-BR009 trial aims to clarify the relative benefit of CT but has faced accrual issues. To address this question, we evaluated OS difference by treatment among pts with N0 (n=0)/intermediate RS and N1 (n=1-3)/low-intermediate RS disease. Methods: NCDB data were analyzed for women 0.05). MVA further confirmed ET+CT had no OS benefit compared to ET alone in all groups (all p>0.05, Table 1). Among N0/intermediate RS pts, grade 3 disease was associated with worse OS (p<0.05). In N1/low RS subjects, CCS=2 predicted worse OS (p<0.05). In N1/intermediate RS pts, stage III disease and lack of RT predicted worse OS (p<0.05). Conclusions: In premenopausal women with early-stage ER+/PR+, HER2- BC, ET+CT yielded similar OS to ET alone in low/intermediate RS pts. Limitations include inability to assess ovarian function suppression and invasive disease-free survival. Larger studies are needed to validate the above findings and to investigate whether CT could be safely omitted in low-intermediate risk pts. MVA for OS by RS and nodal status (HR, 95%CI). N0, intermediate RS N1, low RS N1, intermediate RS CCS (2 vs 0) 3.87 (0.52-29.00) 23.62 (4.63-120.46) 4.01 (0.43-37.77) Grade (3 vs 1) 7.39 (1.45-37.62) 2.26 (0.26-19.57) 1.64 (0.26-10.35) Stage (III vs I) 1.02 (0.21-4.99) n/a 11.77 (1.90-73.04) ET+CT vs ET 0.73 (0.33-1.62) 0.80 (0.25-2.51) 0.44 (0.14-1.35) RT (yes vs no) 1.02 (0.48-2.19) 2.89 (0.65-12.82) 0.22 (0.08-0.66)

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Lei et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a192e4efab5b468c44175dahttps://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2026.44.16_suppl.519
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