Although breast cancer presents as localized disease and is treated with local modalities, i.e. surgery and radiotherapy, patients die with metastatic disease. For patients with positive nodes, the recurrence rates are well known. It is this group of patients who should receive more aggressive trea
Treatment of breast cancer with oral four-drug chemotherapy
β Scribed by John F. Foley; M. Anne Kessinger; Henry M. Lemon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 369 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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