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Chemo Edges Hormonal Therapy for Neoadjuvant Treatment of Luminal Breast Cancer
Chemo Edges Hormonal Therapy for Neoadjuvant Treatment of Luminal Breast Cancer
S London
20100620
2010 Jul 20
Elsevier Global Medical News
Chemo Edges Hormonal Therapy for Neoadjuvant Treatment of Luminal Breast Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Jul 20, S London
CHICAGO (EGMN) - In the neoadjuvant setting, chemotherapy tends to be more effective than hormonal therapy at reducing tumor size in women with the luminal subtype of breast cancer, which generally has a better prognosis, new data show. Among 95 women with localized luminal breast cancer in a randomized phase II trial, two-thirds of those assigned to neoadjuvant chemotherapy had a response, compared with half of those assigned to neoadjuvant hormonal therapy, according to results reported at the...