4.1 Therapeutic indications
• Adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive invasive early breast cancer.
• Extended adjuvant treatment of hormone-dependent invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have received prior standard adjuvant tamoxifen therapy for 5 years.
• First-line treatment in postmenopausal women with hormone-dependent advanced breast cancer.
• Advanced breast cancer after relapse or disease progression, in women with natural or artificially induced postmenopausal endocrine status, who have previously been treated with anti-oestrogens.
• Neo-adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive, HER-2 negative breast cancer where chemotherapy is not suitable and immediate surgery not indicated.
Efficacy has not been demonstrated in patients with hormone receptor negative breast cancer.
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