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Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, on the Initial Results of the TBCRC 024 Study on Breast Cancer

2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, of the University of Michigan Health System, discusses this multicenter phase 1 study of veliparib given concurrently with chest wall and nodal radiation therapy in patients with inflammatory or locoregionally recurrent breast cancer (Abstract 312).



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