Adjuvant Therapy of Primary Breast Cancer (Recent Results in Cancer Research)

The struggle to improve long-term disease-free survival and to reduce mortality in patients with operable breast cancer remains one of the most intriguing yet controversial issues in clinical oncology world-wide. This volume summarizes the most recent medium- to long-term results of clinical trials in adjuvant chemo-, hormono- and radiotherapy in Europe and North America which were extensively presented at the 3rd International Conference on Adjuvant Therapy of Primary Breast Cancer in March 1988 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is an unique and helpful source of information about this critical, interdisciplinary approach and covers theoretical, preclinical issues, therapeutic strategies and clinical up-to-date trial results as well as remaining medical, statistical and psychosocial problems. This volume is a mustfor every physician and scientist concerned with improving life expectancy and quality of patients with potentially curable breast cancer. It covers all major therapeutic advances of the last 4 - 5 years in this field and can be considered an update of the guidelines of the last NIH Consensus Conference in 1985.