Trastuzumab-based neoadjuvant therapy in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2856-2867

  Chang, Helena R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologic; Breast cancer; Breast conservation surgery; Chemotherapy; HER 2; Lymph node management; Neoadjuvant; Trastuzumab

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; LAPATINIB; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; TRASTUZUMAB;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ANOREXIA; ASTHENIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GENES, ERBB-2; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954014147     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25120     Document Type: Review

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