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 August 2008

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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:   Using two or more chemotherapy (anti-cancer) drugs in combination rather than a single drug improves the survival of women with advanced breast cancer but has more adverse effects. Advanced (metastatic) breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the...
Date:   Feb 2005
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:   Jul 2004
Title:   Platinum containing regimens for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Advanced (metastatic) breast cancer has spread beyond the breast. Treatment usually involves chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) to try to reduce the cancer. Drugs can be used alone or in combination. Cisplatin and carboplatin are chemotherapy drugs contai...
Date:   Feb 2004
Title:   Taxane 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 usually involves chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) to try to reduce the cancer. Drugs can be used alone or in combination. Paclitaxel and docitaxel are chemotherap...
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Addition of drug/s to a chemotherapy regimen for metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Of interest is whether there is any benefit to increasing the dose intensity of a regimen, particularly given the potential harm caused by more dose-intensive treatment. This review investigated the value of adding one or more chemotherapy drugs to a ch...
Date:   May 2006
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
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:   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:   May 2005
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:   Women with breast cancer who have multiple positive lymph nodes when first diagnosed are at high risk of recurrence. Conventional chemotherapy has limited success and is unsafe in high doses as it damages the bone marrow. One treatment considered promis...
Date:   May 2005
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
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