Assessment of letrozole and tamoxifen alone and in sequence for postmenopausal women with steroid hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: the BIG 1-98 randomised clinical trial at 8·1 years median follow-up.

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Published in Lancet Oncol on October 20, 2011

Authors

Meredith M Regan1, Patrick Neven, Anita Giobbie-Hurder, Aron Goldhirsch, Bent Ejlertsen, Louis Mauriac, John F Forbes, Ian Smith, István Láng, Andrew Wardley, Manuela Rabaglio, Karen N Price, Richard D Gelber, Alan S Coates, Beat Thürlimann, BIG 1-98 Collaborative Group, International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG)

Author Affiliations

1: International Breast Cancer Study Group Statistical Center, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA. mregan@jimmy.harvard.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Letrozole or Tamoxifen in Treating Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer (BIG 1-98) | NCT00004205

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