The effect of obesity on pathological complete response and survival in breast cancer patients receiving uncapped doses of neoadjuvant anthracycline-taxane-based chemotherapy

Alex Farr, Myriam Stolz, Lukas Baumann, Zsuzsanna Bagó-Horváth, Elisabeth Oppolzer, Georg Pfeiler, Michael Seifert, Christian F. Singer

The Breast · 2017 · 34 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

Obese women receiving full uncapped doses of anthracycline-taxane-based NAC have increased pCR and favorable progression-free survival. This could result from increased dose intensity with increased efficacy and toxicity.

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