Adjuvant therapy of breast cancer in the elderly: does one size fit all?

Editorial

William J Gradishar et al. JAMA. 2005.

. 2005 Mar 2;293(9):1118-20.

doi: 10.1001/jama.293.9.1118.

No abstract available

Comment on

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