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Breast Cancer
Research results from Korea University update knowledge of breast cancer
February 12th, 2009
According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "Our aim in this paper is to verify the efficacy and safety of a epirubicin and docetaxel salvage regimen for anthracycline sensitive metastatic breast cancer patients who have relapsed after anthracycline-containing adjuvant therapy. Thirty-two metastatic breast cancer patients were treated with epirubicin and docetaxel every 21 days." "Of the 31 evaluable patients, there were 13/31 (41.9%) partial responses and no complete responses. Median time to progression was 12 months (95% CI, 4-60 months) and median survival duration was 41 months (95% CI, 1.2-80.8 months). According to the Cox model, ECOG performance and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-02-12)
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