Purpose To determine if time to start of adjuvant chemotherapy after curative surgery
influences survival in early-stage breast cancer. Patients and Methods A retrospective …

Purpose: Theoretically, patients with early breast cancer might benefit from starting adjuvant
chemotherapy soon after surgery, and this would have important clinical implications. We …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect on survival of delaying the start of
adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer for up to 3 months after surgery. In the nation …

Four hundred and sixty patients with stage II or III breast cancer following regional therapy
were treated with an adjuvant combination chemotherapy consisting of fluorouracil …

Background Timeliness of care is emerging as a quality indicator for breast cancer care. We
sought to evaluate the impact of surgical treatment type on time to adjuvant chemotherapy …

Purpose Previous studies have indicated poorer survival among women receiving adjuvant
chemotherapy> 90 days after surgery compared with women receiving adjuvant …

Background It is known that adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival in women with breast
cancer. It is not known whether the interval between surgery and the initiation of …

Purpose For patients with breast cancer (BC), the optimal time to initiation of adjuvant
chemotherapy (TTC) after definitive surgery is unknown. We evaluated the association …

Abstract Introduction The Preoperative Chemotherapy in Primary Operable Breast Cancer
(POCOB) study was designed to compare preoperative with postoperative chemotherapy in …

Purpose In 1996, we initiated the French multicenter phase III randomized trial to compare
the effect on disease-free survival (DFS) of concurrent versus sequential chemotherapy (CT) …