Therapeutic Management of Metastatic Breast Cancer

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Endocrine therapy of advanced breast cancer / Rose, C. -- State of the art in cytotoxic manipulation in treatment of metastatic breast cancer / Henderson, I. C. -- New aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer / Coombes, R. C. / Stein, R. C. -- Prognostic factors in cancer clinical trials - some recent methodological developments / Neiß, A. -- Prognosis-adapted treatment strategy in metastatic breast cancer / Possinger, K. / Wilmanns, W. -- Prognostic and predictive factors in breast cancer / Kaufmann, M. -- Evaluation criteria of palliative treatments in clinical trials of metastatic breast cancer / Brunner, K. W. -- Systemic medical treatment before surgery in patients with operable breast cancer / Smith, I. E. -- Consensus statement -- Conference participants