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Priya Rastogi, MD, on Breast Cancer: Predicting the Benefit of Extended Letrozole Therapy

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Priya Rastogi, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh, discusses results from the NRG Oncology/NSABP B-42 trial, which evaluated the utility of the 70-gene MammaPrint assay in predicting the benefit of extended letrozole therapy in patients who had completed 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy (Abstract 502).



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