Adjuvant chemotherapy and timing of tamoxifen in postmenopausal patients with endocrine-responsive, node-positive breast cancer: a phase 3, open-label, randomised controlled trial.

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Published in Lancet on December 10, 2009

Authors

Kathy S Albain1, William E Barlow, Peter M Ravdin, William B Farrar, Gary V Burton, Steven J Ketchel, Charles D Cobau, Ellis G Levine, James N Ingle, Kathleen I Pritchard, Allen S Lichter, Daniel J Schneider, Martin D Abeloff, I Craig Henderson, Hyman B Muss, Stephanie J Green, Danika Lew, Robert B Livingston, Silvana Martino, C Kent Osborne, Breast Cancer Intergroup of North America

Author Affiliations

1: Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

SWOG-8814 Tamoxifen With or Without Combination Chemotherapy in Postmenopausal Women Who Have Undergone Surgery for Breast Cancer | NCT00929591

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