Fengzhu Guo, Zongbi Yi, Wenna Wang, Yiqun Han, Pei Yu, Su Zhang, Quchang Ouyang, Min Yan, Xiaojia Wang, Xichun Hu, Zefei Jiang, Tao Huang, Zhongsheng Tong, Shusen Wang, Yongmei Yin, Hui Li, Runxiang Yang, Huawei Yang, Yuee Teng, Tao Sun, Li Cai, Hongyuan Li, Xi Chen, Jianjun He, Xinlan Liu, Shune Yang, Jinhu Fan, Youlin Qiao, Jiayu Wang, Binghe Xu
BACKGROUND: Anthracycline-based chemotherapy (ABC) is one of the standard therapies against breast cancer. However, few guidelines are currently available to optimize the use of ABC. Therefore, the present analysis aimed at determining the profile and treatment patterns of ABC and the association of clinicopathological characteristics with ABC selection. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the data of a nation-wide multicenter epidemiological study, which collected the medical records of breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in different settings from seven geographic regions in China (NCT03047889)...
October 2021: Cancer Medicine