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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1344-1346 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
Volume | 294 |
Issue number | 24 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 10 Jun 1976 |
Externally published | Yes |