Open AccessEfficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in down staging locally advanced pre-menopausal breast cancer in Eastern Nigeria: Is four courses adequate?
Author(s) -
OA Egwuonwu,
Snc Anyanwu,
Ame Nwofor
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.126463
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , context (archaeology) , regimen , cancer , oncology , response evaluation criteria in solid tumors , chemotherapy , progressive disease , paleontology , biology
Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women in most part of the world and in Nigeria. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has been demonstrated to be a helpful strategy in the context of locally advanced breast cancer (LABC).