Preoperative Chemotherapy in Patients With Operable Breast Cancer: Nine-Year Results From National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-18

Wolmark, Norman; Wang, J.; Mamounas, E.; Bryant, Jennifer; Fisher, B.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jncimonographs.a003469

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Preoperative Chemotherapy in Patients With Operable Breast Cancer: Nine-Year Results From National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-18

Published in JNCI Monographs • Dec 1, 2001

Authors:

Norman Wolmark

J. Wang

E. Mamounas

Abstract

National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Protocol B-18 was initiated in 1988 to determine whether four cycles of doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide given preoperatively improve survival and disease-free survival (DFS) when compared with the same chemotherapy given postoperatively. Secon...

Subject

Medicine

Lumpectomy

Breast cancer

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