Annals of Oncology Advance Access originally published online on September 2, 2008
Annals of Oncology 2008 19(11):1975-1976; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdn598
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Triple-negative (TN) breast cancer is a challenge in daily oncology practice, and we have read with great interest the article Platinum-based chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer by Sirohi et al. [1].
Patients with TN tumors do not benefit from hormonal therapy or trastuzumab, two of the current mainstays in the systemic treatment of breast cancer. Recently, the role of a third one, anthracyclines,
1 Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca
2 Molecular Pathology program, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-IBMCC (USAL-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain