Treatment of Patients with Early Breast Cancer: Evidence, Controversies, Consensus

Michael Untch*, Peter A. Fasching, Sara Y. Brucker, Wilfried Budach, Carsten Denkert, Renate Haidinger, Jens Huober, Christian Jackisch, Wolfgang Janni, Cornelia Kolberg-Liedtke, David Krug, Thorsten Kühn, Sibylle Loibl, Diana Lüftner, Volkmar Müller, Andreas Schneeweiss, Marc Thill, Nadia Harbeck, Christoph Thomssen

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Abstract

This year's 17th St. Gallen (SG) Consensus Conference on the Treatment of Patients with Early Breast Cancer (SG-BCC) with the title Customizing local and systemic therapies for women with early breast cancer focused on the challenge of targeting the treatment of early breast cancer more specifically to the individual disease situation of each patient. As in previous years, a German working group of leading breast cancer experts discussed the results of the international SG-BCC 2021 in the context of the German guideline. It is helpful to compare the SG recommendations with the recently updated treatment recommendations of the Breast Commission of the German Working Group on Gynaecological Oncology (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie e.V., AGO) and the S3 guideline because the SG-BCC panel comprised experts from different countries, which is why country-specific aspects can be incorporated into the SG recommendations. The German treatment recommendations of the AGO and the S3 guideline are based on current evidence. Nevertheless, any therapeutic decision must always undergo a risk-benefit analysis for the specific situation and to be discussed with the patient.

Translated title of the contributionBehandlung von Patientinnen mit fruhem Mammakarzinom: Evidenz, Kontroversen, Konsens
Original languageEnglish
JournalGeburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
Volume81
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)637-653
Number of pages17
ISSN0016-5751
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.06.2021

Research Areas and Centers

  • Research Area: Luebeck Integrated Oncology Network (LION)

DFG Research Classification Scheme

  • 2.22-14 Hematology, Oncology
  • 2.22-21 Gynaecology and Obstetrics

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