Safety and Efficacy of Neo-adjuvant Sequential Dose-Dense Chemotherapy Doublets Combined with Trastuzumab in Patients with HER-2-Positive Early Stage Breast Cancer
Abstract:the management of early breast cancer. This strategy is indicated in patients with locally advanced breast cancer and has shown to increase the rate of breastconserving surgery. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy is also an excellent in vivo chemosensitivity test that enables the rapid and direct assessment of tumor response, allowing the testing of new drug treatments for patients with early stages of the disease. Likewise, pathologic complete response (pCR) is a powerful predictor of both prolonged disease-free and o… Show more
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