Adding hormonal therapy to chemotherapy and trastuzumab improves prognosis in patients with hormone receptor-positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive primary breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 523-531

  Hayashi, Naoki ^a,b,c   Niikura, Naoki ^b,d   Yamauchi, Hideko ^b   Nakamura, Seigo ^b,c   Ueno, Naoto T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasm; Chemotherapy; Hormonal therapy; Hormone receptor; Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; HORMONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN; TRASTUZUMAB; ERBB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BREAST TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAMOXIFEN; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880602493     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2336-6     Document Type: Article

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