2009
Eradication of Axillary Lymph Node Metastases Occurs in 74% of Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with Concurrent Trastuzumab for HER2 Positive Breast Cancer.
Dominici L, Negron Gonzalez V, Buzdar A, Lucci A, Mittendorf E, Pusztai L, Krishnamurthy S, Le-Petross H, Babiera G, Bedrosian I, Meric-Bernstam F, Hunt K, Valero V, Kuerer H. Eradication of Axillary Lymph Node Metastases Occurs in 74% of Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with Concurrent Trastuzumab for HER2 Positive Breast Cancer. Cancer Research 2009, 69: 1086-1086. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.sabcs-09-1086.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAxillary pathologic complete responseTrastuzumab-based neoadjuvant chemotherapyPathologic complete responseDisease-free survivalHER2-positive breast cancerHER2-positive diseaseResidual axillary diseaseNeoadjuvant chemotherapyPositive breast cancerAxillary metastasesPCR groupAxillary diseasePositive diseaseBreast cancerComplete axillary lymph node dissectionAxillary lymph node dissectionAxillary lymph node metastasisComplete pathologic responseLymph node dissectionKaplan-Meier methodMajority of patientsKaplan-Meier analysisLymph node metastasisEstrogen receptor statusConcurrent trastuzumab
2003
Correlation between HER‐2 expression and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with 5‐fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide in patients with breast carcinoma
Zhang F, Yang Y, Smith T, Kau S, McConathy JM, Esteva FJ, Kuerer HM, Symmans WF, Buzdar AU, Hortobagyi GN, Pusztai L. Correlation between HER‐2 expression and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with 5‐fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide in patients with breast carcinoma. Cancer 2003, 97: 1758-1765. PMID: 12655533, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11245.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCourses of FACBreast carcinomaNeoadjuvant chemotherapyPathologic responseResponse rateLymph node-positive diseaseGood pathologic responseMedian patient ageClinical response rateNode-positive diseasePercent of patientsTime of surgeryClinical laboratory assessmentsMinimal residual diseaseClinical responsePositive diseasePathologic assessmentPatient agePhysical examinationPositive tumorsResidual diseaseImaging assessmentClinical assessmentResponse assessmentNonsignificant trend