Monitoring breast cancer response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with ultrasound signal statistics and integrated backscatter.

Monitoring breast cancer response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with ultrasound signal statistics and integrated backscatter.

<h4>Background</h4>Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is used in patients with breast cancer to reduce tumor focus, metastatic risk, and patient mortality. Monitoring NAC effects is necessary to capture resistant patients and stop or change treatment. The existing methods for evaluating NAC...

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Main Authors: Hanna Piotrzkowska-Wróblewska, Katarzyna Dobruch-Sobczak, Ziemowit Klimonda, Piotr Karwat, Katarzyna Roszkowska-Purska, Magdalena Gumowska, Jerzy Litniewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213749

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