Primary objectives:
- To compare the disease free survival (DFS) in patients treated with the sequential
epidoxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF) regimen to that
in patients treated with the same treatment plus docetaxel given sequentially after
epidoxorubicin
Secondary objectives:
- To compare the DFS in patients treated with the sequential epidoxorubicin, docetaxel and
CMF (only patients with > or = 4 lymph nodes) regimen to that in patients treated with
sequential intensified epidoxorubicin/docetaxel/high dose (HD) cyclophosphamide regimen
- To evaluate the overall survival in each arm
- To evaluate the tolerability of a sequential intensified
epidoxorubicin/docetaxel/HD-cyclophosphamide (arm C)
- To compare the safety of a sequential epidoxorubicin/docetaxel/CMF (arm B) regimen
versus a standard sequential epidoxorubicin/CMF regimen (arm A)