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    Accuracy and axilla sparing potentials of sentinel lymph node biopsy with methylene blue alone performed before versus after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: a single institution experience

    The timing of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) of breast cancer in the neoadjuvant setting is still controversial. We retrospectively analyzed a Chinese patient cohort with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) to e...

    Guo-Chun Zhang, Ning Liao, Zi-Bai Guo, Xue-Ke Qian in Clinical and Translational Oncology (2013)

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    Pre-treatment hormonal receptor status and Ki67 index predict pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant trastuzumab/taxanes but not disease-free survival in HER2-positive breast cancer patients

    Trastuzumab-containing neoadjuvant chemotherapy achieves a pathologic complete response (pCR) rate of about 40 % in HER2-positive breast cancers, and pCR predicts better survival. A cohort of 102 consecutive C...

    Guo-Chun Zhang, Xue-Ke Qian, Zi-Bai Guo, Chong-Yang Ren, Meng Yao in Medical Oncology (2012)