G Aurilio, D Serrano, M Lazzeroni, A Guerrieri-Gonzaga, H Johansson, S Gandini, I M Briata, M D'Amico, S Spinaci, P Veronesi, V Galimberti, M Intra, B M Heckman-Stoddard, E Szabo, G Viale, B Bonanni, A DeCensi
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Abstract
Window-of-opportunity trials are a path to screen effective agents and optimize dose in breast cancer risk reduction. We review the scientific evidence regarding the utility of window-of-opportunity trials to screen effective agents and optimize dose for successful risk reduction/interception of breast cancer. Low-dose tamoxifen was evaluated in a window-of-opportunity trial and then validated in a phase-III trial. We are now studying similar activity with low-dose exemestane.
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npj Breast Cancer publishes original research articles, reviews, brief correspondence, meeting reports, editorial summaries and hypothesis generating observations which could be unexplained or preliminary findings from experiments, novel ideas, or the framing of new questions that need to be solved. Featured topics of the journal include imaging, immunotherapy, molecular classification of disease, mechanism-based therapies largely targeting signal transduction pathways, carcinogenesis including hereditary susceptibility and molecular epidemiology, survivorship issues including long-term toxicities of treatment and secondary neoplasm occurrence, the biophysics of cancer, mechanisms of metastasis and their perturbation, and studies of the tumor microenvironment.