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Lead
European Institute of Oncology
Age
18–70
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Patients with breast cancer histologically proven \> 2 cm, ER and PgR \<20% or Any ER and PgR absent (T2,T3 N0-2, M0)
No treatment with previous chemotherapy/hormonotherapy
Performance status 0-2 (ECOG scale, Appendix 2)
Measurable or evaluable lesions
Age between 18-70 years
No significant intercurrent illness such as diabetes, cardiovascular, renal or neurologic impairments
Absence of psychiatric illness
WBC \> 4,000/mm3; PLTS \> 100,000/mm3
AST, ALT, LDH, gamma-GT \< 2.5 x upper limit of normal and bilirubin \< 3 mg/100 ml
Informed consent obtained
Pregnancy test (in fertile women). An effective contraceptive method must be utilized by fertile women.
Baseline examinations (chest X ray, CT scan, ECG etc) performed within one month prior initiation to therapy
You may not be if
Uncontrolled infection and metabolite disease
Distant metastases
Active peripheric and/or central neurological disease
Active cardiac disease defined as CHF (NYHA III-IV) significant arrhytmias, bilateral bundle branch block or recent (less than 3 months) history of myocardial infarction
History of second malignancy (exception in situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix and basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin)
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