Publication
Title
Perspectives on preoperative systemic treatment and breast conservative surgery : one step forward or two steps back?
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Abstract
Preoperative systemic therapy (PST) has become an accepted treatment not only for locally advanced but also for early stage breast cancer patients. Clinical trials have demonstrated that the use of PST is equally to adjuvant treatments in terms of overall survival, and has the advantage of increasing rates of breast conservative surgery and rates of pathologic complete response, a surrogate endpoint for the effectiveness of systemic therapy. Initial studies have suggested higher rates of locoregional recurrence with this approach. However, the optimization of systemic and targeted therapy and the multidisciplinary care is key to achieving optimal outcomes in this setting. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Language
English
Source (journal)
The Breast. - Edinburgh
Publication
Edinburgh : 2018
ISSN
0960-9776
DOI
10.1016/J.BREAST.2018.07.008
Volume/pages
41 (2018) , p. 133-135
ISI
000442764500019
Pubmed ID
30056250
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
UAntwerpen
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Subject
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Last edited 05.12.2024
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