Preoperative Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer.

This article comments on preoperative chemotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer. Preoperative therapy has been shown to increase survival and control of the cancer in breast cancer but not in all forms of it. There are 3 subsets of patients for whom preoperative therapy is beneficial, including patients with inoperable breast cancer and those who are poor candidates for breast conservation because of the size of the tumor.