Defining the Survival Benchmark for Breast Cancer Patients with Systemic Relapse
Author(s) -
Simon B. Zeichner,
Tadeu Ambros,
John Zaravinos,
Alberto J. Montero,
Reshma Mahtani,
Eugene Ahn,
Aruna Mani,
Nathan Markward,
Charles L. Vogel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
breast cancer basic and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.741
H-Index - 23
ISSN - 1178-2234
DOI - 10.4137/bcbcr.s23794
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , systemic therapy , metastatic breast cancer , cancer , oncology , disease , population , retrospective cohort study , surgery , environmental health
Our original paper, published in 1992, reported a median overall survival after first relapse in breast cancer of 26 months. The current retrospective review concentrates more specifically on patients with first systemic relapse, recognizing that subsets of patients with local recurrence are potentially curable.
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