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Joseph A. Sparano, MD, on Early Breast Cancer: Predicting Prognosis and Treatment Benefit in TAILORx

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Joseph A. Sparano, MD, of the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein Cancer Center, discusses how clinical risk stratification provides additional prognostic information to the 21-gene recurrence score and may be used to identify premenopausal women for more effective antiestrogen therapy (Abstract 503).

 



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