Chemotherapy of Breast Cancer

Michael B. Mosher, Stuart G. Gilbert, A. n.n. Barrett, Richard F. Mould, Laurence Freedman, Gianni Bonadonna, Pinuccia Valagussa, Samuel Hellman, Ben M. Birkhead, Joseph C. Beck, James F. Holland

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Abstract

To the Editor: This letter is in reference to Bonadonna's article on adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer, which appeared in the February 19 issue. I have followed Dr. Bonadonna's work in the past two years with great excitement. I hoped, and continue to hope, that adjuvant chemotherapy would be the first real dent in the mortality rate of breast cancer. However, in reading the details of his study I was quite disturbed to find that he did not do periodic routine bone scans unless the patient was symptomatic or a lesion became visible on x-ray study. In our practice, of. . .

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1344-1346
Number of pages3
JournalNew England Journal of Medicine
Volume294
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Jun 1976
Externally publishedYes

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