Open AccessNeoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced breast cancer
Author(s) -
Hardik Dodiya,
Alay P Brahmbhatt,
Priyanka Khatri,
Ashish Kaushal,
Vijay Dg
Publication year - 2015
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 - 10.4103/0973-1482.146056
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , chemotherapy , oncology , neoadjuvant therapy , cancer
Locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) remains major clinical issue with regard to selection and duration of therapy since many years. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is multimodality program, established to treat LABC. Many research tasks are ongoing to develop specific neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen with specific duration to improve long-term control of LABC.