Toxicities Associated with Ribociclib From MONALEESA-3 Trial

At the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2019 Congress, overall survival results of the phase III MONALEESA-3 trial of postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer treated with fulvestrant (faslodex) plus/minus ribociclib (kisqali) were discussed by leading experts across the globe.

At ESMO, OncLive^®, a sister publication to Oncology Nursing News^® had the chance to sit down with Patrick Neven, MD, PhD, GYN oncologist at University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and discuss the data from the MONALEESA-3 trial, focusing on the toxicities associated with patients who took ribociclib.

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They are tolerated fairly well, but there are some hematologic toxicities. Some patients feel tired, they sometimes have anemia, they feel nauseous. There also might be a bit of hair loss, which can be disturbing. Grade 3 and 4 hematological toxicity was present in more than 10% of the patients, which is sometimes the reason to delay the dose or to reduce the dose.