Systematic review of taxane-containing versus non-taxane-containing regimens for adjuvant and neoadjuvant treatment of early breast cancer

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 372-380

  Nowak, Anna K ^a   Wilcken, N R C ^a   Stockler, M R ^a,b   Hamilton, A ^b   Ghersi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Geriatric Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN P53; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; VINCRISTINE;

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG RESPONSE; EARLY CANCER; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MYALGIA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUROTOXICITY; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PACLITAXEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAXOIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542422890     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(04)01494-9     Document Type: Review

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