Title |
Anthracycline-free neoadjuvant therapy induces pathological complete responses by exploiting immune proficiency in HER2+ breast cancer patients
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Published in |
BMC Cancer, December 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2407-14-954 |
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Authors |
Gianmaria Miolo, Elena Muraro, Debora Martorelli, Davide Lombardi, Simona Scalone, Simon Spazzapan, Samuele Massarut, Tiziana Perin, Elda Viel, Elisa Comaro, Renato Talamini, Ettore Bidoli, Elisa Turchet, Diana Crivellari, Riccardo Dolcetti |
Abstract |
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NC) including trastuzumab induces a high rate of pathological Complete Responses (pCR) in patients with locally advanced HER2-overexpressing Breast Cancer (BC), but is penalized by a severe cardiotoxicity when combined with anthracyclines. A phase II study was designed to assess whether an anthracycline-free NC regimen based on the early addition of trastuzumab to paclitaxel may increase the pCR rate without inducing severe cardiotoxicity in patients with locally advanced HER2-overexpressing BC. Immunomonitoring was performed to assess the contribution of patients' immunological background to the induction of clinical responses. |
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