An increase in cell number at completion of therapy may develop as an indicator of early relapse

@article{Pachmann2007AnII,
  title={An increase in cell number at completion of therapy may develop as an indicator of early relapse},
  author={Katharina Pachmann and Robert Dengler and Kurt Lobodasch and Frank Fr{\"o}hlich and Torsten Kroll and Matthias Rengsberger and Rene Schubert and Ulrich A. Pachmann},
  journal={Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology},
  year={2007},
  volume={134},
  pages={59-65}
}
PurposeTreatment efficiency of adjuvant therapy in breast cancer is only revealed after several years by statistical evaluation and gives no answer for the individual patient. We here present a method to analyze the response to adjuvant chemotherapy online in individual patients.Methods/resultsIn 25 consecutive non-metastatic primary breast cancer patients adjuvant fluorouracil/epirubicin/cyclophosphamid (FEC) or EC followed by taxane (EC-T) or cyclophosphamid/methotrexate/fluorouracil (CMF… 
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  • Medicine, Biology
    Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
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