Current best practices and rationalistic perspectives in causation-based prevention, early detection and multidisciplinary treatment of breast and gastric cancer

Gastric & Breast Cancer e-journal
DOI: 10.2122/gbc.2011.0149

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Breast cancer: New key phase 3 trials data on sentinel node, recurrence biopsy and bevacizumab

Eleftheria Ignatiadou, M.D. and Charalabos Batsis, M.D.

Affiliation: Dr. Eleftheria Ignatiadou, and Charalabos Batsis, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, TK 45110, Greece.

E-mail: chbatsis@hotmail.com

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Data with major clinical utility for patients, physicians, medical and surgical oncologists were released at the ASCO 2010 meeting from large-scale phase 3 trials before the full publication. No prognostic significance had occult metastasis (micrometastasis) in sentinel node biopsy and no survival benefit was associated with bevacizumab treatment.

(Citation: Gastric & Breast Cancer 2011; 10(1): 43-46)

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