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[Treatment of stage IV breast carcinoma]
G Vadalà1, A Buffone, A Mangiameli
1Istituto di Chirurgia d'Urgenza e Pronto Soccorso, Università di Catania.
Minerva Chirurgica
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
The authors report a study carried out in 4 patients with stage 4 breast cancer. The treatment protocol was selected according to age and the general conditions of patients. Two out of four patients were treated with adjuvant chemotherapy associated with cyclophosphamide, adriblastin, 5-fluorouracil and folic acid; one patient received neoadjuvant chemotherapy with the same treatment protocol, while the fourth patient was treated with hormone and immunotherapy. Results were satisfying given that survival was considerably increased in 3 patients together with an improvement in general conditions.