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Breast Cancer,Metastatic or Recurrent - References

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  1. Ellis MJ, et al. (2004). Treatment of metastatic breast cancer. In JR Harris et al., eds., Diseases of the Breast, 3rd ed., pp. 1101–1159. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

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  4. National Cancer Institute (2006). Probability of breast cancer in American women. National Cancer Institute Fact Sheet. Available online: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Detection/probability-breast-cancer.

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  6. Rapiti E, et al. (2006). Complete excision of primary breast tumor improves survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 24(18): 2743–2749.

  7. Goss PE, et al. (2003). A randomized trial of letrozole in postmenopausal women after five years of tamoxifen therapy for early-stage breast cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 349(19): 1793–1802.

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