Polychemotherapy for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomised clinical trials with quality-adjusted survival analysis.

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Published in Lancet on July 28, 2001

Authors

B F Cole1, R D Gelber, S Gelber, A S Coates, A Goldhirsch

Author Affiliations

1: Dartmouth College Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA. bernard.cole@dartmouth.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Exercise Intervention Study for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Therapy. | NCT00405678

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