Pathologic Complete Response to Preoperative Sequential Doxorubicin/Cyclophosphamide and Single-Agent Taxane With or Without Trastuzumab in Stage II/III HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saranya Chumsri ◽  
Stacie Jeter ◽  
Lisa K. Jacobs ◽  
Hind Nassar ◽  
Deborah K. Armstrong ◽  
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Author(s):  
Agnieszka Irena Jagiełło-Gruszfeld ◽  
Magdalena Rosinska ◽  
Malgorzata Meluch ◽  
Katarzyna Pogoda ◽  
Anna Niwińska ◽  
...  

Neoadjuvant systemic therapy has now become the the standard in early breast cancer management. Chemotherapy in combination with trastuzumab +/- pertuzumab targeted therapy can improve rates of pathologic complete response (pCR) in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. Achieving a pCR is considered a good prognostic factor, in particular in patients with more aggressive breast cancer subtypes such as TNBC or HER2 positive cancers. Furthermore, most studies demonstrate that chemotherapy in combination with trastuzumab and pertuzumab is well tolerated. The retrospective analysis presented here concentrates on neoadjuvant therapy with the TCbH-P regimen, with a particular emphasis on patients over 60 years of age. We analysed the factors affecting the achievement of pCR and presented adverse effects of the applied therapies, which opened a discussion about optimizing the therapy of older patients with HER-2 positive breast cancer.


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