Neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer – Clinical and research perspective

Neoadjuvant therapy is very often an adequate alternative to adjuvant therapy. This review is summarizing the recent advances made in the area of neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer. The focus will lie on recently published clinical trials but will not further highlight surgical, imaging and radiooncological issues related to neoadjuvant therapy.Within the last 1-1.5 years it has been discussed if neoadjuvant treatment can be used as faster way...