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Jack Cuzick, PhD, on the International Breast Cancer Intervention Study II: 10-Year Results

2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

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Jack Cuzick, PhD, of Queen Mary University of London, discusses the substantially greater benefits of anastrozole as compared with tamoxifen in terms of preventing breast cancer, with no increase in fractures or other reported serious side effects (Abstract GS4-04).



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