Title |
Recommendations from an International Consensus Conference on the Current Status and Future of Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy in Primary Breast Cancer
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Published in |
Annals of Surgical Oncology, December 2011
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DOI | 10.1245/s10434-011-2108-2 |
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Authors |
Manfred Kaufmann, Gunter von Minckwitz, Elefhterios P. Mamounas, David Cameron, Lisa A. Carey, Massimo Cristofanilli, Carsten Denkert, Wolfgang Eiermann, Michael Gnant, Jay R. Harris, Thomas Karn, Cornelia Liedtke, Davide Mauri, Roman Rouzier, Eugen Ruckhaeberle, Vladimir Semiglazov, W. Fraser Symmans, Andrew Tutt, Lajos Pusztai |
Abstract |
The use of neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST) for the treatment of primary breast cancer has constantly increased, especially in trials of new therapeutic regimens. In the 1980 s, NST was shown to substantially improve breast-conserving surgery rates and was first typically used for patients with inoperable locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer. Investigators have since also used NST as an in vivo test for chemosensitivity by assessing pathologic complete response. Today, by using pathologic response and other biomarkers as intermediate end points, results from trials of new regimens and therapies that use NST are aimed to precede and anticipate the results from larger adjuvant trials. In 2003, a panel of representatives from various breast cancer clinical research groups was first convened in Biedenkopf to formulate recommendations on the use of NST. The obtained consensus was updated in two subsequent meetings in 2004 and 2006. The most recent conference on recommendations on the use of NST took place in 2010 and forms the basis of this report. |
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