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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bear HD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4624323 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

The Lancet. Oncology 20150810 9
<h4>Background</h4>NSABP B-40 was a 3 × 2 factorial trial testing whether adding capecitabine or gemcitabine to docetaxel followed by doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide neoadjuvant chemotherapy would improve outcomes in women with operable, HER2-negative breast cancer and whether adding neoadjuvant plus adjuvant bevacizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens would also improve outcomes. As reported previously, addition of neoadjuvant bevacizumab increased the proportion of patients achieving a ...[more]