Bevacizumab in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer: friend or foe?

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Published in Curr Oncol Rep on February 01, 2012

Authors

Alberto J Montero1, Mauricio Escobar, Gilberto Lopes, Stefan Glück, Charles Vogel

Author Affiliations

1: UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. AMontero2@med.miami.edu

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