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CANCER TREATMENT REVIEWS
卷 34, 期 8, 页码 701-709出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2008.04.002
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Early-breast cancer; Guidelines; Computer-based risk calculators; Prognostic tests; Gene expression profiles; Minimum invasive disease
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- GlaxoSmithKline Spain
The clinical decision to treat early-stage breast cancer with adjuvant chemotherapy is sometimes a difficult one because 70-80% of patients who receive chemotherapy would probably have survived without it. To help clinicians in this decision-making process, different toots or 'decision aids' have been developed for the treatment of early breast cancer over the years. Some of these toots include clinical treatment guidelines and computer-based programs as well as different prognostic and/or predictive tests such as those based on gene expression profiles or the presence minimum invasive disease. All of these toots try to individualize as much as possible the estimation of the risk of breast cancer relapse and death and to facilitate the clinical decision about giving additional treatment, and ultimately the most appropriate treatment to be given. Thus, it is important for clinicians to be aware of not only the existence of these toots or 'decision aids', but also to know how they have been developed, how frequently there are revised and if they have been validated. In order to address all these concerns, we have carried out a critical review of the most important prognostic tests and clinical guidelines for the treatment of early breast cancer. Information regarding their development process as welt as frequency of revision, validations that have been performed and main limitations of each toot were gathered and critically analyzed. (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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