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Editorial
. 2019 Oct 18;8(3):BMT29.
doi: 10.2217/bmt-2019-0015.

The microbiota, antibiotics and breast cancer

Alastair M McKee  1 , Lindsay J Hall  1 , Stephen D Robinson  1   2
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Editorial

The microbiota, antibiotics and breast cancer

Alastair M McKee et al. Breast Cancer Manag. .
No abstract available

Keywords: antibiotics; breast cancer; microbiota.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interests disclosure LJ Hall has been funded by Welcome Trust with grant number 100/974/C/13/Z. AM McKee and SD Robinson have been funded by Breast Cancer Now with ID 2017NovPhD973. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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