Letrozole plus GnRH analogue as preoperative and adjuvant therapy in premenopausal women with ER positive locally advanced breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 431-441

  Torrisi, Rosalba ^a,b   Bagnardi, Vincenzo ^a,c,d   Rotmensz, Nicole ^a   Scarano, Eloise ^a   Iorfida, Monica ^a   Veronesi, Paolo ^a,e   Luini, Alberto ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^a,e   Santoro, Armando ^b   Colleoni, Marco ^a   Goldhirsch, Aron ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d Frontier Science and Technology Research Foundation   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

ER positive breast cancer; GnRH analogue; Letrozole; Locally advanced breast cancer; Premenopausal; Preoperative treatment

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LETROZOLE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN; TRASTUZUMAB; TRIPTORELIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PREMENOPAUSE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NITRILES; PREMENOPAUSE; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 79958722350     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-010-1340-y     Document Type: Article

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