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VIDEO: Time to skip chemo for luminal A tumors?


 

AT SABCS 2015

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SAN ANTONIO – Premenopausal women with luminal A tumors did not derive benefit from adjuvant cyclophosphamide-based chemotherapy.

In an interview, Dr. Torsten Nielsen, professor of pathology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, discusses the prospective-retrospective study and whether its findings will prompt patients with these tumors and their physicians to skip chemotherapy.

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