Changing treatment paradigms in metastatic breast cancer: Lessons learned

JAMA Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 528-534

  Santa Maria, Cesar A ^a   Gradishar, William J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; TUMOR MARKER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84982938339     PISSN: 23742437     EISSN: 23742445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.1198     Document Type: Review

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