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SUBMITTER: Richter H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5778196 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richter Hannah H Hennigs André A Schaefgen Benedikt B Hahn Markus M Blohmer Jens Uwe JU Kümmel Sherko S Kühn Thorsten T Thill Marc M Friedrichs Kay K Sohn Christof C Golatta Michael M Heil Jörg J
Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde 20180122 1
The likelihood of pathological complete remission (pCR) of breast cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is increasing; most of all in the triple negative and HER2 positive tumour subgroups. The question thus arises whether or not breast surgery is necessary when there is complete remission after NACT, and whether it provides any improvement of the oncological treatment result when tumour is no longer detectable. Avoiding surgery and possibly even radiotherapy would only be conceivable ...[more]