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Jun 4, 2007

Imaging sheds light on treatment response

Locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) is generally treated with neoadjuvant therapy to shrink the tumours prior to surgical removal. In up to two-thirds of cases, however, such intervention is unsuccessful. What's more, a negative therapeutic response is typically only determined months after treatment commences, by which point the patient may have already received unnecessary chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy with potentially toxic side-effects.

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