Zoledronate in Treating Osteopenia or Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women Receiving Letrozole for Stage I, Stage II, or Stage IIIA Primary Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title: Zoledronic Acid for Treatment of Osteopenia and Osteoporosis in Women With Primary Breast Cancer Undergoing Adjuvant Aromatase Inhibitor (Letrozole) Therapy

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Zoledronate may reduce bone loss in patients receiving letrozole for breast cancer.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well zoledronate works in treating osteopenia or osteoporosis in postmenopausal women receiving letrozole for stage I, stage II, or stage IIIA primary breast cancer.

Clinical Trial Description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

• Assess changes in total lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) from baseline to 12 months in postmenopausal women treated with zoledronate for osteopenia or osteoporosis and letrozole for hormone receptor-positive, stage I-IIIA primary breast cancer.

Secondary

• Determine changes in total lumbar spine BMD from baseline to 2, 3, 4, and 5 years in these patients.

• Determine changes in femoral neck BMD from baseline to 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years in these patients.

• Determine time to disease progression in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label, multicenter study.

• Adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy: Patients receive oral letrozole daily for up to 5 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

• Osteoporosis management: Patients receive zoledronate IV over 15 minutes on day 1. Patients also receive oral elemental calcium twice daily and oral vitamin D daily for 6 months. Treatment repeats every 6 months for up to 5 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients undergo total lumbar spine and hip (femoral neck) bone density testing by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at baseline and annually for 5 years.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed at 4 weeks.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 60 patients will be accrued for this study. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bone Diseases, Metabolic
• Breast Cancer
• Breast Neoplasms
• Osteoporosis

• NCT number: NCT00436917
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Mayo Clinic
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2006
• Completion date: May 9, 2016