Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Relationship between body mass index and preoperative treatment response to aromatase inhibitor exemestane in postmenopausal patients

Relationship between body mass index and preoperative treatment response to aromatase inhibitor exemestane in postmenopausal patients with primary breast cancer. The Breast, Vol. 21(1), Feb. 2012, p. 40-45.

Takada, M., et al.

Some studies have shown that high body mass index (BMI) is associated with inferior outcome after adjuvant therapy with anastrozole in breast cancer patients. We aimed to investigate predictive effect of BMI on clinical response to neoadjuvant therapy with exemestane in postmenopausal patients with primary breast cancer.