The actual scenario of neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer in developing country: a report of 80 cases of breast cancer from a tertiary cancer center in India.

CONCLUSION: In a population of predominantly locally advanced patients, NACT with anthracyclines yielded pCR rates comparable to published studies. There were a high proportion of HER2-positive patients, most of whom could not receive anti-HER2 therapy due to financial reasons. PMID: 24894013 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Breast Cancer - June 4, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Das U, Lakshmaiah KC, Govind Babu K, Suresh TM, Lokanatha D, Jacob L, Babu S Tags: J Cancer Res Clin Oncol Source Type: research