Association of Adjuvant Chemotherapy With Overall Survival Among Women With Small, Node-Negative, Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Oluwadamilola T Oladeru; Anurag K Singh; Sung Jun Ma

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16247

Association of Adjuvant Chemotherapy With Overall Survival Among Women With Small, Node-Negative, Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Sep 1;3(9):e2016247. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16247.

Authors

Oluwadamilola T Oladeru¹, Anurag K Singh², Sung Jun Ma²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
² Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York.

Abstract

This cohort study uses data from the National Cancer Database to evaluate overall survival rates of women who were diagnosed between 2010 and 2015 with small, node-negative, triple-negative breast cancer and were treated with or without adjuvant chemotherapy.

MeSH terms

Aged
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant / methods
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant / standards*
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant / statistics & numerical data
Cohort Studies
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Proportional Hazards Models
Statistics, Nonparametric
Survival Analysis*
Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms / physiopathology