Long-term outcome of neoadjuvant endocrine therapy with aromatase inhibitors in elderly women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1575-1582

  Grassadonia, Antonino ^a   Di Nicola, Marta ^a   Grossi, Simona ^b   Noccioli, Paolo ^b   Tavoletta, Saveria ^b   Politi, Roberto ^b   Angelucci, Domenico ^c   Marinelli, Camilla ^c   Zilli, Marinella ^c   Ausili Cefaro, Giampiero ^a   Tinari, Nicola ^a   De Tursi, Michele ^a   Iezzi, Laura ^c   Cioffi, Pasquale ^c   Iacobelli, Stefano ^a   Natoli, Clara ^a   Cianchetti, Ettore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Division of Surgical Senology 'G Bernabeo' Hospital   (Italy)

^c 'SS Annunziata' Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EXEMESTANE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LETROZOLE; TRASTUZUMAB; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ERBB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NITRILE; TAMOXIFEN; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST CONSERVATIVE SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

AGED; ANDROSTADIENES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; NITRILES; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TAMOXIFEN; TIME FACTORS; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 84898908255     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3535-7     Document Type: Article

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