Interesting Articles

• Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients with Breast Cancer
  May 2010
  1. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group. Effects of Chemotheraphy and hormonal theraphy for early breast cancer on recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of randomized clinical trials. Lancet 2005; 365:1687-1717.
  2. A. Goldhirsch, JN. Ingle, RD. Gelber, AS. Coates, B. Thurlimann, HJ. Senn. Thresholds for therapies: Highlights from the St. Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Theraphy of Early Breast Cancer 2009. Ann Oncol 2009; 20: 1319-1329.
  3. JA. Oshaughessney, J. Blum, V. Moiseyenko et al. Randomized, open- label phase-II- trial of oral capecitabine (Xeloda) vs. a reference arm of intravenous CMF as first-line treatment for advanced/metastatic breast cancer. Ann Oncol 2001; 12: 1247-1254.
  4. HB. Muss, DA. Berry, PHD. Constance, et al. Adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with early-stage breast cancer. N Engl J Med 2009; 360: 2055-2065.
  Review by Prof. Hans Joerg Senn
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• Advanced breast cancer mortality in randomized controlled trials on mammography screening
  May 2010
  Autier P., Hénry C., Haukka J., Boniol M., Byrnes J.J Cl Oncol 27:5919-5923, 2009
  Review by Dr. Antonio Ponti
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