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Cancer Therapy
Neoadjuvant taxanes used in treatment of non-metastatic breast cancer
October 13th, 2005
Neoadjuvant taxanes were used in the treatment of non-metastatic breast cancer. "In recent years the rote of neoadjuvant (primary, preoperative) chemotherapy has undergone rapid progress. Initially, neoadjuvant chemotherapy use was limited to those patients with inoperable locally advanced breast cancer in an attempt to try to downsize the tumor to make effective surgery possible," scientists in Canada reported. "The advent of more effective chemotherapy regimens has led to an increased use of neoadjuvant therapy to shrink potentially operable tumors to allow for breast conservation when a mastectomy would have been required previously. While...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-10-13)
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