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High-Dose Toremifene as a Promising Candidate Therapy for Hormone Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer with Secondary Resistance to Aromatase Inhibitors

Table 5

Associations between liver metastasis and HD-TOR clinical benefit rate.

StudyCases ()Liver metastasis () (%)ORR (%)CBR (%)YearReference

Retrospective8010 (12.5)15.045.02010Yamamoto et al. [12]
Retrospective133 (23.0)7.746.22012Sawaki et al. [16]
Retrospective212 (9.5)21.163.22013Koike et al. [13]
Prospective46 (HD-TOR arm)7 (15.2)10.843.22013Yamamoto et al. [14]
Retrospective8517 (20.0)21.241.22014Ishizuna et al. [15]
Retrospective197 (36.8)21.131.62019This study

HD-TOR: high-dose toremifene; ORR: overall response rate; CBR: clinical benefit rate.