What is the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project?
The NSABP is a cooperative group with a 40-year history of designing and conducting clinical trials, the results of which have changed the way breast cancer is treated, and now, prevented. Results of clinical trials conducted by NSABP researchers have been the dominant force in altering the standard surgical treatment of breast cancer from radical mastectomy to lumpectomy plus radiation. This group was also the first to demonstrate that adjuvant therapy could alter the natural history of breast cancer, thus increasing survival rates.
