A case of brain metastases from breast cancer that responded to anastrozole monotherapy

Breast Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 435-437

  Ito, Ken Ichi ^a   Ito, Tokiko ^a   Okada, Toshihiro ^a   Watanabe, Takayuki ^a   Gomi, Kuniyuki ^a   Kanai, Toshiharu ^a   Mochizuki, Yasuhiro ^a   Amano, Jun ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; EXEMESTANE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PAMIDRONIC ACID; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

AGED; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MONOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NITRILES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 67650735473     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2009.00756.x     Document Type: Letter

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