Impact of combining the progesterone receptor and preoperative endocrine prognostic index (PEPI) as a prognostic factor after neoadjuvant endocrine therapy using aromatase inhibitors in postmenopausal ER positive and HER2 negative breast cancer.

The preoperative endocrine prognostic index (PEPI) predicts survival after neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NAE) using aromatase inhibitors (AIs) for women with postmenopausal estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer irrespective of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status. Alth...

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Main Authors: Sasagu Kurozumi, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Kenichi Inoue, Katsunori Tozuka, Yuji Hayashi, Masafumi Kurosumi, Tetsunari Oyama, Takaaki Fujii, Jun Horiguchi, Hiroyuki Kuwano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6078304?pdf=render