Breast cancer: combining bevacizumab with chemotherapy--from maintenance to second-line treatment

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Alessia Errico. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2014 Nov.

. 2014 Nov;11(11):621.

doi: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2014.179. Epub 2014 Oct 14.

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