Randomized trial of dose-dense versus conventionally scheduled and sequential versus concurrent combination chemotherapy as postoperative adjuvant treatment of node-positive primary breast cancer: First report of Intergroup Trial C9741/Cancer and Leukemia Group B Trial 9741

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1431-1439

  Citron, Marc L ^a   Berry, Donald A ^b   Cirrincione, Constance ^b   Hudis, Clifford ^b   Winer, Eric P ^b   Gradishar, William J ^b   Davidson, Nancy E ^b   Martino, Silvana ^b   Livingston, Robert ^b   Ingle, James N ^b   Perez, Edith A ^b   Carpenter, John ^b   Hurd, David ^b   Holland, James F ^b   Smith, Barbara L ^b   Sartor, Carolyn I ^b   Leung, Eleanor H ^b   Abrams, Jeffrey ^b   Schilsky, Richard L ^b   Muss, Hyman B ^b   Norton, Larry ^b   more..

^a ProHEALTH Care Associates   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PACLITAXEL; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FILGRASTIM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PACLITAXEL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037687355     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.09.081     Document Type: Article

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