Cardiac assessment of early breast cancer patients 18 years after treatment with cyclophosphamide-, methotrexate-, fluorouracil- or epirubicin-based chemotherapy.
Background Epirubicin-based chemotherapy improves the outcome of early breast cancer (BC) patients. However, cardiotoxicity remains an important side effect. Methods We re-consented node-positive BC patients enrolled in a phase III trial between 1988 and 1996 which compared six cycles of oral cyclop...
| Published in: | European Journal of Cancer Vol. 51; no. 17; pp. 2517 - 2525 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | clinical trial research Journal Article |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Nov2015
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