Prospective Evaluation of Paclitaxel Versus Combination Chemotherapy With Fluorouracil, Doxorubicin, and Cyclophosphamide as Neoadjuvant Therapy in Patients With Operable Breast Cancer

Abstract

The results of this prospective study demonstrated that single-agent paclitaxel as neoadjuvant therapy has significant antitumor activity, and this was clinically comparable to FAC. Similar fractions of patients had clinical complete and partial responses, and very few patients had no response to either therapy. The value of alternate non-cross-resistant therapies as used in this protocol on the clinical course of this disease would require longer follow-up.