Evaluating the impact of Relative Total Dose Intensity (RTDI) on patients' short and long-term outcome in taxane- and anthracycline-based chemotherapy of metastatic breast cancer- a pooled analysis

von Minckwitz, Gunter

doi:10.1186/1471-2407-11-131

Evaluating the impact of Relative Total Dose Intensity (RTDI) on patients' short and long-term outcome in taxane- and anthracycline-based chemotherapy of metastatic breast cancer- a pooled analysis

Date Issued

2011-01-01

Author(s)

Loibl, Sibylle

Skacel, Tomas

Nekljudova, Valentina

Lück, Hans Joachim

Schwenkglenks, Matthias

Brodowicz, Thomas

Zielinski, Christoph

von Minckwitz, Gunter

DOI

10.1186/1471-2407-11-131

Abstract

Chemotherapy dose delay and/or reduction lower relative total dose intensity (RTDI) and may affect short- and long-term outcome of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients.