Some adjuvantly treated patients develop recurrent breast cancer and little is known about the effect of prior adjuvant chemotherapy on subsequent response rates to systemic therapy or on overall survival. We describe our retrospective comparison of 179 patients who received doxorubicin containing a
Sequential endocrine therapy and chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer: Effects on survival
โ Scribed by Andrea Manni; Olof H. Pearson; James S. Marshall; Bahauddin M. Arafah
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 651 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6806
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