Pathologic complete response in breast cancer patients receiving anthracycline- and taxane-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy: Evaluating the effect of race/ethnicity

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4168-4177

  Chavez MacGregor, Mariana ^a   Litton, Jennifer ^a   Chen, Huiqin ^a   Giordano, Sharon H ^a   Hudis, Clifford A ^b   Wolff, Antonio C ^c   Valero, Vicente ^a   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^a   Bondy, Melissa L ^a   Gonzalez Angulo, Ana Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Pathologic complete response; Race

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; HORMONE RECEPTOR; PACLITAXEL; TRASTUZUMAB; ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BRIDGED COMPOUND; TAXANE; TAXOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTHRACYCLINES; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRIDGED COMPOUNDS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; TAXOIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956823470     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25296     Document Type: Article

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