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The treatment of advanced breast cancer with surgery, hormonal modalities, radiotherapy and chemotherapy has met with palliation in the face of relentlessy progressive disease. The remarkable successes observed with chemotherapy in testicular carcinoma, Hodgkin’s disease or childhood leukaemias are rarely, if ever, observed in advanced breast cancer. Often the gains made are at a price. Discomfort and side effects are the patients’ constant companions during rigorous chemotherapy regimens. Unfortunately, objective and complete responses invariably turn to rapidly growing drug-and radiation-resistant disease.
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Jordan, V.C. (1986). Tamoxifen Prophylaxis: Prevention is Better Than Cure — Prevention is Cure?. In: Cavalli, F. (eds) Endocrine Therapy of Breast Cancer. ESO Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71506-8_9
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