[Cancer Treatment and Research] Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer Volume 151 || Costs of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments

✍ Scribed by Castiglione, Monica; Piccart, Martine J.

• Book ID: 120206232
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 386 KB
• Edition: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0387751157
• DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75115-3_25

✦ Synopsis

Adjuvant treatment is administered prior to or as follow up to surgical procedures for breast cancer. Proven success in using medical therapies allowing for breast conserving procedures or reducing risk of occurrence. Although there has been much progress towards a cure, including the introduction of new targeted therapies, metastasizing cancer remains highly incurable.