Author response to: Comment on: Predictive value of pretreatment circulating inflammatory response markers in the neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer: meta-analysis

Gavin P Dowling^{1

2

3}, Gordon R Daly^{1

3}, Aisling Hegarty^{1

3}, Sandra Hembrecht^{1

3}, Aisling Bracken¹, Sinead Toomey², Bryan T Hennessy², Arnold D K Hill^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
² Medical Oncology Lab, Department of Molecular Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
³ Department of Surgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Comment

Gavin P Dowling et al. Br J Surg. 2024.

. 2024 Jul 2;111(7):znae190.

doi: 10.1093/bjs/znae190.

Gavin P Dowling^{1

2

3}, Gordon R Daly^{1

3}, Aisling Hegarty^{1

3}, Sandra Hembrecht^{1

3}, Aisling Bracken¹, Sinead Toomey², Bryan T Hennessy², Arnold D K Hill^{1

3}

¹ Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
² Medical Oncology Lab, Department of Molecular Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
³ Department of Surgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

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Comment on: Predictive value of pretreatment circulating inflammatory response markers in the neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer: meta-analysis.
Chen Y, You Y, He J, Zhang M. Chen Y, et al. Br J Surg. 2024 Jul 2;111(7):znae187. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znae187. Br J Surg. 2024. PMID: 39051668 No abstract available.

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