Optimal systemic therapy for early breast cancer in women: a clinical practice guideline.

ABSTRACT: The Breast Cancer Disease Site Group of Cancer Care Ontario identified the need for new guidelines for the adjuvant systemic therapy of early-stage breast cancer. The specific question to be addressed was "What is the optimal adjuvant systemic therapy for female patients with early-stage operable breast cancer, when patient and disease factors are considered?" A systematic review was prepared based on literature searches conducted using the medline and embase databases for the period January 2008 to March 5, 2012, and updated to May 12, 2014. Guidelines were located from that search, from the Standards and Guidelines Evidence directory of cancer guidelines, and from the Web sites of major guideline organizations. The literature located was subdivided into the broad categories of chemothera

SUBMITTER: Eisen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4381792 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature