Systematic Reviews of Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Reviewed July 2009

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Title:   Single agent versus combination chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Metastatic breast cancer is cancer that has advanced and spread beyond the breast and regional lymph nodes. Although many women will live with advanced disease for many years, treatment is aimed at the alleviation of symptoms rather than cure. The first...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   High dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation versus conventional chemotherapy for women with metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Advanced or 'metastatic' breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast and underarm lymph nodes to other parts of the body. Although metastatic breast cancer is often responsive to conventional chemotherapy it does not provide a cure. The do...
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Chinese medicinal herbs to treat the side-effects of chemotherapy in breast cancer patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chinese medicinal herbs (CMH) include any mixture of herbal compounds and decoction (the process by which herbs are boiled and remaining liquid used for health purposes), including the development of herbal formulae and injections, and capsules. Althoug...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Bisphosphonates for breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   When breast cancer has spread to the bones (bone metastases ), bisphosphonate drugs (added to anti-cancer treatment for breast cancer) can reduce pain, fractures and other bone problems. Women and men with advanced breast cancer commonly develop bone me...
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Antitumour antibiotic containing regimens for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Advanced (metastatic) breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast. Treatment for metastatic disease usually involves some type of chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) to try to reduce the cancer. Chemotherapy drugs can either be given as a sin...
Date:   Oct 2006
Title:   High dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation versus conventional chemotherapy for women with early poor prognosis breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is no evidence to show that women with early poor-prognosis breast cancer live longer if they undergo high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation. Women with breast cancer who have multiple positive lymph nodes when first diagnosed are a...
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Addition of drug/s to a chemotherapy regimen for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Advanced breast cancer is treatable but not curable. Women with advanced breast cancer have an average survival of about 2 years, although some women may live for many years beyond this. It is therefore important to investigate different chemotherapy tr...
Date:   Aug 2005
Title:   Taxane containing regimens for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chemotherapy including taxane could improve survival and disease progression in women with advanced breast cancer, but more research is needed on which regimens help most. Advanced (metastatic) breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast. ...
Date:   Mar 2004
Title:   Platinum containing regimens for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chemotherapy containing platinum causes more adverse effects than other options but might not increase survival in women receiving their first treatments for advanced breast cancer. Advanced (metastatic) breast cancer has spread beyond the breast. Treat...
Date:   May 2003
Title:   Multi-agent chemotherapy for early breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Early breast cancer can be removed by surgery, and for many women the chance of the cancer returning (recurrence) is small. In some women however, the cancer does return. Chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) is used to try to prevent this, and to try to imp...
Date:   Aug 2001
Title:   Tamoxifen for early breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   'Early' breast cancer means detectable cancer that can be surgically removed. However undetected cancer cells can develop after several years and cause death. Tamoxifen improves the 10-year survival for women after breast cancer surgery but there is unc...
Date:   Nov 2000
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