Current approaches in treatment of triple-negative breast cancer

Cancer Biology and Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 106-116

  Wahba, Hanan Ahmed ^a   El Hadaad, Hend Ahmed ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; HER2; Triple negative

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; INIPARIB; IXABEPILONE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; METHOTREXATE; NEW DRUG; PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER;

EID: 84937562733     PISSN: 20953941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7497/j.issn.2095-3941.2015.0030     Document Type: Review

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