Inflammatory Breast Cancer Management in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: The Disease, Recurrence Pattern, and Outcome

Micro-Abstract IBC is a unique entity with aggressive clinical features, predictable recurrence patterns, and poor prognosis. The high rate of recurrence, especially in the CNS, suggests that new strategies for surveillance and follow-up are needed for earlier detection or prevention of brain metast...

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Published in:Clinical breast cancer 2015-02, Vol.15 (1), p.1-7
Main Authors: Matro, Jennifer M, Li, Tianyu, Cristofanilli, Massimo, Hughes, Melissa E, Ottesen, Rebecca A, Weeks, Jane C, Wong, Yu-Ning
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Brain metastases
Community Networks - organization & administration
Comprehensive Health Care - methods
Comprehensive Health Care - organization & administration
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine
Humans
Inflammatory breast cancer
Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms - epidemiology
Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms - therapy
Metastatic breast cancer
Middle Aged
Multimodality therapy
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Recurrence
Treatment Outcome
Triple negative breast cancer
United States - epidemiology
Young Adult
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Summary:Micro-Abstract IBC is a unique entity with aggressive clinical features, predictable recurrence patterns, and poor prognosis. The high rate of recurrence, especially in the CNS, suggests that new strategies for surveillance and follow-up are needed for earlier detection or prevention of brain metastases.
ISSN:1526-8209
1938-0666
DOI:10.1016/j.clbc.2014.05.005