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The Women's Oncology Review
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Current Awareness
Volume 6, 2006 - Issue 3-4
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Adjuvant chemotherapy for women with breast cancer with 10 or more positive axillary lymph nodes—will less mean more?

Montero AJ, et al. The natural history of breast carcinoma in patients with >10 metastatic axillary lymph nodes before and after the advent of adjuvant therapy. Cancer 2005;104(2):229–235.

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