Samia Yehia Abdelrazek Heikal

Role of advanced MRI techniques in predicting and evaluating the response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy / دور تقنيات تصوير الرنين المغناطيسي الحديثة في التنبؤ و تقييم استجابة سرطان الثدي للعلاج الكيميائي الاستباقي Samia Yehia Abdelrazek Heikal ; Supervised Naglaa Abdelrazek , Karam Gaber - Cairo : Samia Yehia Abdelrazek Heikal , 2012 - 172 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer is now a valuable treatment option for both operable tumours and for downstaging of inoperable tumours. Prediction and early monitoring of tumour response to therapy has steadily evolved over the last past few years as a result of new functional MRI techniques. The use of imaging as an early surrogate biomarker of response is appealing



Breast cancer Neoadjuvant chemotherapy Prediction