Systemic therapy for early-stage breast cancer: learning from the past to build the future

E Agostinetto, J Gligorov, M Piccart - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
The treatment of breast cancer has improved dramatically over the past century, from a
strictly surgical approach to a coordinated one, including local and systemic therapies …

Effects of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy for early breast cancer on recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials

Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group - The Lancet, 2005 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Quinquennial overviews (1985–2000) of the randomised trials in
early breast cancer have assessed the 5 year and 10-year effects of various systemic …

Meta-analysis of chemotherapy in head and neck cancer (MACH-NC): An update on 107 randomized trials and 19,805 patients, on behalf of MACH-NC Group

B Lacas, A Carmel, C Landais, SJ Wong… - Radiotherapy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and purpose The Meta-Analysis of Chemotherapy in squamous cell
Head and Neck Cancer (MACH-NC) demonstrated that concomitant chemotherapy (CT) …

ROCplot. org: Validating predictive biomarkers of chemotherapy/hormonal therapy/anti‐HER2 therapy using transcriptomic data of 3,104 breast cancer patients

JT Fekete, B Győrffy - International journal of cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Systemic therapy of breast cancer can include chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and
targeted therapy. Prognostic biomarkers are able to predict survival and predictive …

Axillary dissection vs no axillary dissection in women with invasive breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis: a randomized clinical trial

AE Giuliano, KK Hunt, KV Ballman, PD Beitsch… - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context Sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) accurately identifies nodal metastasis of
early breast cancer, but it is not clear whether further nodal dissection affects survival …

Early discontinuation and non-adherence to adjuvant hormonal therapy are associated with increased mortality in women with breast cancer

DL Hershman, T Shao, LH Kushi, D Buono… - Breast cancer research …, 2011 - Springer
Despite the benefit of adjuvant hormonal therapy (HT) on mortality among women with
breast cancer (BC), many women are non-adherent with its use. We investigated the effects …

Augmented post-remission therapy for a minimal residual disease-defined high-risk subgroup of children and young people with clinical standard-risk and …

A Vora, N Goulden, C Mitchell, J Hancock… - The lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background No randomised study has shown whether stratification of treatment by minimal
residual disease (MRD) response improves outcome in children and young people with …

Postoperative radiotherapy in high-risk postmenopausal breast-cancer patients given adjuvant tamoxifen: Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group DBCG 82c …

M Overgaard, MB Jensen, J Overgaard, PS Hansen… - The Lancet, 1999 - thelancet.com
Background Postmastectomy radiotherapy is associated with a lower locoregional
recurrence rate and improved disease-free and overall survival when combined with …

[HTML][HTML] A randomized trial of letrozole in postmenopausal women after five years of tamoxifen therapy for early-stage breast cancer

PE Goss, JN Ingle, S Martino, NJ Robert… - … England Journal of …, 2003 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In hormone-dependent breast cancer, five years of postoperative tamoxifen
therapy—but not tamoxifen therapy of longer duration—prolongs disease-free and overall …

Folate and ageing

RC Coombes, LS Kilburn, CF Snowdon - cancer, 2004 - thelancet.com
The FACIT trial of folic acid supple mentation in older adults by Jane Durga and colleagues
(Jan 20, p 208) 1 adds to the growing evidence of the importance of folate to the nervous …