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Long-Term Prognostic Risk After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Associated With Residual Cancer Burden and Breast Cancer Subtype.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 1 Apr 2017
Symmans W Fraser, Wei Caimiao, Gould Rebekah, Yu Xian, Zhang Ya, Liu Mei, Walls Andrew, Bousamra Alex, Ramineni Maheshwari, Sinn Bruno, Hunt Kelly, Buchholz Thomas A, Valero Vicente, Buzdar Aman U, Yang Wei, Brewster Abenaa M, Moulder Stacy, Pusztai Lajos, Hatzis Christos, Hortobagyi Gabriel N
Abstract excerpt
Purpose To determine the long-term prognosis in each phenotypic subset of breast cancer related to residual cancer burden (RCB) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone, or with concurrent human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-targeted treatment. Methods We conducted a pathologic review to measure the continuous RCB index (wherein pathologic complete response has RCB = 0; residual disease is categorized...
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