Pathologic Complete Response (pCR) and Survival of Women with Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC): An Analysis Based on Biologic Subtypes and Demographic Characteristics.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-4-2019

Institution/Department

Surgery; Oncology; Maine Medical Center Research Institute

Journal Title

Int J Environ Res Public Health

MeSH Headings

Female, Humans, Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms, Mastectomy, Middle Aged, Receptors, Estrogen, Receptors, Progesterone, Survival Analysis, Treatment Outcome, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms

Abstract

In this US-based study of the National Cancer Database (NCDB), we examined 8550 patients diagnosed with non-metastatic, invasive inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) who received surgery from 2004⁻2013. Patients were grouped into four biologic subtypes (HR⁺/HER

ISSN

1660-4601

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