Use of Cox’s Cure Model to Establish Clinical Determinants of Long-Term Disease-Free Survival in Neoadjuvant-Chemotherapy-Treated Breast Cancer Patients without Pathologic Complete Response

In prognostic studies for breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), the ordinary Cox proportional-hazards (PH) model has been often used to identify prognostic factors for disease-free survival (DFS). This model assumes that all patients eventually experience relapse or dea...

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Main Authors: Junichi Asano, Akihiro Hirakawa, Chikuma Hamada, Kan Yonemori, Taizo Hirata, Chikako Shimizu, Kenji Tamura, Yasuhiro Fujiwara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:International Journal of Breast Cancer
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/354579
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