TY - BOOK AU - Ali Mahdi Alhaddar Alsakkaf AU - Omar Sherif Omar , AU - Sayed Ahmed Marei , AU - Wessam Ali Elsherif , TI - The role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in surgical decision making for patients with breast cancer during the period from 2008 to 2011 / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ali Mahdi Alhaddar Alsakkaf , KW - Breast cancer KW - General surgery KW - Neoadjuvant chemotherapy N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, where there is more than 1 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 400000 die from it. Treatment of Breast cancer can be classified into local therapy like surgery and radiation and systemic therapy like chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. Neoadjuvant (or pre operative) chemotherapy is being increasingly used for the treatment of breast cancer. Response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy may convert an inoperable breast cancer to an operable tumor. By downsizing the tumor, neoadjuvant chemotherapy also increases the possibility of breast conserving therapy in larger number of patient UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -