Effectiveness of switching from adjuvant tamoxifen to anastrozole in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early-stage breast cancer: a meta-analysis.

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Published in Lancet Oncol on December 01, 2006

Authors

Walter Jonat1, Michael Gnant, Francesco Boccardo, Manfred Kaufmann, Alessandra Rubagotti, Ivan Zuna, Mike Greenwood, Raimund Jakesz

Author Affiliations

1: University of Kiel, Germany. jonat@email.uni-kiel.de

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