Measuring disease-free survival and cancer relapse using Medicare claims from CALGB breast cancer trial participants (companion to 9344).

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Published in J Natl Cancer Inst on September 20, 2006

Authors

Elizabeth B Lamont1, James E Herndon, Jane C Weeks, I Craig Henderson, Craig C Earle, Richard L Schilsky, Nicholas A Christakis, Cancer and Leukemia Group B

Author Affiliations

1: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. lamont@hcp.med.harvard.edu

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