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SUBMITTER: Connolly RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3758450 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
European journal of pharmacology 20130329 1-3
Compared to adjuvant chemotherapy, the administration of the same regimen in the neoadjuvant setting provides women with identical improvements in disease free and overall survival. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may offer benefits to properly selected women such as broadening surgical options and enhancing the likelihood of breast conservation. Assessment of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy provides women with an individualized estimate of prognosis. For example, a woman who achieves a complete p ...[more]