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Time to Surgery and the Impact of Delay in the Non-Neoadjuvant Setting on Triple-Negative Breast Cancers and Other Phenotypes.
Annals of surgical oncology - 1 May 2020
Mateo Alina M, Mazor Anna M, Obeid Elias, Daly John M, Sigurdson Elin R, Handorf Elizabeth A, DeMora Lyudmila, Aggon Allison A, Bleicher Richard J
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BACKGROUND: Characterization of breast cancer phenotypes has improved our ability to predict breast cancer behavior. Triple-negative (TN) breast cancers have higher and earlier rates of distant events. It has been suggested that this behavior necessitates treating TNs faster than others, including use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) if time to surgery is not rapid. METHODS: A review of women diagnosed with...
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