Regulatory approval

Published by the Health Service Executive.

The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has approved exemestane for reimbursement as a monotherapy treatment option for the adjuvant treatment of hormone receptor positive invasive early breast cancer in patients who are postmenopausal women.

This is written in the approval document as:

Adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive invasive early breast cancer

Citation

Exemestane Monotherapy, 2021, version number 3, NCCP National SACT Regimen, NCCP, viewed 21/07/2024, https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/profinfo/chemoprotocols/breast/376.pdf

Therapeutic response

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

Type Biomarker(s) Cancer type Therapy(ies)
Sensitivity (+) ER positive, PR positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Exemestane
Sensitivity (+) ER positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Exemestane
Sensitivity (+) PR positive Invasive Breast Carcinoma Exemestane