Surgery may not be the best next course of treatment for patients with early-stage breast cancer who had a complete response to neoadjuvant (pre-surgical) chemotherapy and standard radiation treatment. Five-year results from the Phase II trial revealed that breast cancer still had not returned in patients who had a pathologic complete response (pCR) after chemotherapy and radiation, without surgery. After a median follow-up of 55.4 months, each of the 31 patients with a pCR remained disease...


