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Ten years of hormone therapy reduces breast cancer recurrence without compromising quality of life

2016 ASCO Annual Meeting

Published: 5 Jun 2016

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Dr Julie Lemieux - Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Québec, Canada

Dr Lemieux presents at ASCO 2016, a randomised phase III clinical trial, MA.17R found that postmenopausal women with early breast cancer benefit from extending aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy with letrozole from 5 to 10 years.

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