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Standard of care (SoC) including a booklet focused on healthy behaviors

Patients randomized to the duloxetine arm will take duloxetine orally daily, with or without food, on a continuous dosing schedule.

Initial dose is 30 mg daily for 1 week, followed by 60 mg daily for a total of 6 months of treatment, followed by a taper off the medication of 30 mg daily for 1 additional week.

Duloxetine 60 MG

Patients randomized to the furosemide arm will take furosemide 40 mg orally daily, on an empty stomach with plenty of liquid, on a continuous dosing schedule.

Furosemide 40 mg

All patients will receive usual care, including a booklet focused on healthy behaviors, particularly physical exercise, to manage endocrine therapy side-effects.

Booklet for healthy behaviors

EORTC HQ

This study is a pragmatic international, multicenter, randomized, open label 3- arm trial of standard care vs. two pharmacological interventions: duloxetine or furosemide in patients with stage I-III ER+/HER2- early breast cancer with joint, muscle and/or bone pain caused by the endocrine therapy.

The purpose of the BC-QOL trial is to find out whether treatment with duloxetine or furosemide, given while patients are on treatment with endocrine therapy, is active in improving quality of life (QoL), specifically by improving joint, muscle and/or bone pain caused by the endocrine therapy (based on EORTC QLQ-BR42 skeletal scale).

Patients, identified by their clinicians as suffering from Grade 2 or above endocrine therapy-related musculoskeletal symptoms \[joint/bone/muscle pain\]) for, at least, 4 weeks before enrolment will be centrally randomized 1:1:1 between:

* Control arm: Standard of care (SoC) including a booklet focused on healthy behaviors
* Experimental arm: Duloxetine 60 mg (1 pill a day) + SoC
* Experimental arm: Furosemide 40 mg (1 pill a day) + SoC

Treatment duration will be 6 months. All patients will receive usual care, including a booklet focused on healthy behaviors, particularly physical exercise, to manage endocrine therapy side-effects. Treatment administration and modifications as well as specific monitoring should be done in accordance to the SmPC of the corresponding drugs.

Improvement of Quality of Life Through Supportive Treatments for Hormone Therapy - Related Symptoms in Women With Early Breast Cancer

Improvement of Quality of Life Through Supportive Treatments for Hormone Therapy - Related Symptoms in Women With Early Breast Cancer; A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial

Assessed by the Skeletal scale from the EORTC-QLQ-BR42 questionnaire, with the minimum and maximum values being 0 - 100 and higher score means worse outcome.

Assessed by the Global Health status/Quality of Life scale from the EORTC-QLQ-C30 questionnaire, with the minimum and maximum values being 0 - 100 and higher score means better outcome.

Assessed by the emotional functioning scale from the EORTC-QLQ-C30 questionnaire, with the minimum and maximum values being 0 - 100 and higher score means better outcome.

Assessed by the endocrine therapy symptom scale from the EORTC-QLQ-BR42 questionnaire, with the minimum and maximum values being 0 - 100 and higher score means worse outcome.

Proportion of patients who discontinued endocrine therapy

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization
Improvement of Quality of Life Through Supportive Treatments for Hormone Therapy - Related Symptoms in Women With Early Breast Cancer	NCT06407401	ER+ Breast Canc... HER2-negative B... Breast Cancer S... Breast Cancer S... Breast Cancer S... Drug-Related Si... Musculoskeletal...	Duloxetine 60 M... Furosemide 40 m... Booklet for hea...	18 Years -	European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
Improvement of Quality of Life Through Supportive Treatments for Hormone Therapy - Related Symptoms in Women With Early Breast Cancer	NCT06407401	ER+ Breast Canc... HER2-negative B... Breast Cancer S... Breast Cancer S... Breast Cancer S... Drug-Related Si... Musculoskeletal...	Duloxetine 60 M... Furosemide 40 m... Booklet for hea...	18 Years -	European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
Improvement of Quality of Life Through Supportive Treatments for Hormone Therapy - Related Symptoms in Women With Early Breast Cancer	NCT06407401	ER+ Breast Canc... HER2-negative B... Breast Cancer S... Breast Cancer S... Breast Cancer S... Drug-Related Si... Musculoskeletal...	Duloxetine 60 M... Furosemide 40 m... Booklet for hea...	18 Years -	European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC

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