Erschienen in:
01.01.2008 | Special Article
Histopathological criteria for assessment of therapeutic response in breast cancer (2007 version)
verfasst von:
Masafumi Kurosumi, Sadako Akashi-Tanaka, Futoshi Akiyama, Yoshifumi Komoike, Hirofumi Mukai, Seigo Nakamura, Hitoshi Tsuda, (Committee for Production of Histopathological Criteria for Assessment of Therapeutic Response of the Japanese Breast Cancer Society)
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer
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Ausgabe 1/2008
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Excerpt
In preoperative drug therapy (chemo-, endocrine, molecular-targeting, and other therapies) and/or radiotherapy for breast cancer, various degrees of histological changes of cancer tissue occur depending on the sensitivity of cancer cells to the particular treatment, kinds of therapeutic agents, dosage of drugs, method of administration, kind of combination, type and dosage of isotope, method of irradiation, duration of treatment, interval from the last treatment, and resection of cancer tissue. Histopathological criteria for assessment of response to neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer have been established according to the degree of histological change of cancer tissue as described below. …
