Clinical significance and prognostic value of receptor conversion in hormone receptor positive breast cancers after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Abstract Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is widely used in advanced breast cancer patients. However, there is little known about conversion frequency of estrogen receptor (ER) and/or progesterone receptor (PR) status for hormone receptor positive-breast cancer patients after NAC and their...

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Main Authors: Libo Yang, Xiaorong Zhong, Tianjie Pu, Yan Qiu, Feng Ye, Hong Bu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-03-01
Series:World Journal of Surgical Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12957-018-1332-7