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Source
Breast Cancer Update Patterns of Care 2005;2(3).
Purpose
This publication reports the results of a Breast Cancer Patterns of Care survey,
completed in August and September of 2005 by 45 breast cancer clinical investigators
and 100 randomly selected United States-based medical oncologists,
designed to compare how these two groups of medical oncologists integrate
clinical research results into their practices. The adjuvant endocrine therapy
section of this publication is reviewed here.
Results
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