Erschienen in:
12.07.2018 | Letter to the Editor
Towards treatment personalisation in triple negative breast cancer: role of platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy
verfasst von:
Mattia Rediti, Carlo Messina
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
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Ausgabe 1/2018
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Excerpt
We read with great interest the meta-analysis by Poggio et al. regarding neoadjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy (PBC) in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) [
1]. PBC significantly increased the pathological complete response (pCR) rate in TNBC patients (from 37.0 to 52.1%; OR 1.96, 95% CI 1.46–2.62,
P < 0.001) at the cost of a higher risk of grade 3/4 haematological toxicities. However, PBC was not associated with a meaningful increase in pCR rate among the 96 germline BRCA (gBRCA) mutants included. …