Breast cancer therapy for BRCA1 carriers: moving towards platinum standard?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Recently Byrski et al. reported the first-ever breast cancer (BC) study, which specifically selected BRCA1-carriers for the neoadjuvant treatment and used monotherapy by cisplatin instead of conventional schemes. Although the TNM staging of the recruited patients...

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Main Author: Imyanitov Evgeny N
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-04-01
Series:Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
Online Access:http://www.hccpjournal.com/content/7/1/8