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- Title
Trimodal Therapy for Inflammatory Breast Cancer: A Surgeon's Perspective.
- Authors
Li, Benjamin D.; Sicard, Mark A.; Ampil, Fred; Abreo, Fleurette; Lilien, David; Burton, Gary V.; Chu, Quyen D.
- Abstract
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and most aggressive form of breast cancer. The onset and progression of disease are rapid; diagnosis must be made expediently to initiate treatment quickly. In this review, the clinical presentation, trimodal therapy, surgical principles and a brief summary of the Louisiana State University at Shreveport experience with IBC are presented. With this aggressive approach, 5-year survival of better than 40-50% can be expected. This represents a substantive improvement in clinical outcome for IBC patients compared with 30 years ago. Copyright © 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
INFLAMMATORY breast cancer; DISEASE progression; DIAGNOSIS; CANCER treatment; HEALTH outcome assessment
- Publication
Oncology, 2010, Vol 79, Issue 1/2, p3
- ISSN
0030-2414
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000318529