Dr Laura Spring speaks to ecancer at SABCS 2018 about the meta analysis into association of complete response following neoadjuvant chemotherapy with longterm survival in breast cancer.
The study covered 52 studies and over 27,000 patients and it was found that the achievement of pathologic complete response is associated with significantly improved event free survival and overall survival.
Dr Spring explains that a specific analysis was performed into the sub group of patients who achieved the pathologic complete response and then went onto receive additional chemotherapy following surgery or did not receive additional chemotherapy following surgery.
It was found that these groups did equally well showing that the achievement of pathologic complete response is prognostic.
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