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2012 EDUCATIONAL BOOK - American Society of Clinical Oncology

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UPDATE OF THE OXFORD OVERVIEW<br />

Fig. 8. Breast cancer mortality for anthracyclines compared with no adjuvant chemotherapy. Outcomes for different cumulative anthracyclines<br />

doses, age groups, node status, ER status. and the combination <strong>of</strong> ER status and histopathologic grade. All forest plots reveal a very similar<br />

pattern <strong>of</strong> the same relative magnitude <strong>of</strong> chemotherapy.<br />

Abbreviations: ER, estrogen receptor; CAF, cyclophosphamide/doxorubicin/fluorouracil; SE, standard error; 4AC/EC, four cycles <strong>of</strong> doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide<br />

or epirubicin/cyclophosphamide; NS, nodal status.<br />

Reprinted from The Lancet, 379, Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group, Peto R, Davies C, et al. Comparisons between different<br />

polychemotherapy regimens for early breast cancer: Meta-analyses <strong>of</strong> long-term outcome among 100,000 women in 123 randomized trials,<br />

432–444, <strong>2012</strong>, with permission from Elsevier.<br />

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