Category: Chemotherapy

Breast Cancer Neoadjuvant Therapy Part 2/3

Neoadjuvant therapy was discussed in a prior post, in this post I will discuss the following items

  • Patient evaluation throughout neoadjuvant therapy.
  • Treatment modalities in neoadjuvant therapy.
  • Special patient subgroups.
  • Management of the axilla.

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Breast Cancer Neoadjuvant Therapy Part 1/3

Introduction

Neoadjuvant therapy refers to the systemic treatment of breast cancer before definitive surgery, it is also called preoperative therapy. Neoadjuvant therapy was initially used for patients with the advanced inoperable disease, however, it is now proved to be beneficial in different subsets of patients including those with early-stage operable breast cancer.

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