Update Breast Cancer 2019 Part 3 - Current Developments in Early Breast Cancer: Review and Critical Assessment by an International Expert Panel.

ABSTRACT: The treatment of breast cancer patients in a curative situation is special in many ways. The local therapy with surgery and radiation therapy is a central aspect of the treatment. The complete elimination of tumour cells at the site of the primary disease must be ensured while simultaneously striving to keep the long-term effects as minor as possible. There is still focus on the continued reduction of the invasiveness of local therapy. With regard to systemic therapy, chemotherapies with taxanes, anthracyclines and, in some cases, platinum-based chemotherapies have become established in the past couple of decades. The context for use is being continually further defined. Likewise, there are questions in the case of antihormonal therapy which also still need to be further defined following

SUBMITTER: Kolberg HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6529230 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature