It Is Time to Stop Using Epirubicin to Treat Any Patient With Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma

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¹ Elena Elimova, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Yelena Y. Janjigian, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Mary Mulcahy, Feinberg School of Medicine, Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, IL; Daniel V. Catenacci, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Mariela A. Blum, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Khaldoun Almhanna, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL; J. Randolph Hecht, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA; and Jaffer A. Ajani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

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Elena Elimova et al. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Feb.

. 2017 Feb;35(4):475-477.

doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.69.7276. Epub 2016 Oct 28.

¹ Elena Elimova, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Yelena Y. Janjigian, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Mary Mulcahy, Feinberg School of Medicine, Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, IL; Daniel V. Catenacci, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Mariela A. Blum, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Khaldoun Almhanna, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL; J. Randolph Hecht, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA; and Jaffer A. Ajani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

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