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Development and clinical utility of a 21-gene recurrence score prognostic assay in patients with early breast cancer treated with tamoxifen.
The oncologist - 1 Jun 2007
Paik Soonmyung
Abstract excerpt
Although patients diagnosed with axillary node-negative estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer have an excellent prognosis, about 15% of them fail after 5 years of tamoxifen treatment. Clinical trials have provided evidence that there is a significant benefit from chemotherapy for these patients, but it would be significant overtreatment if all of them were treated with chemotherapy. Therefore, context-specific...
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