Many women with early-stage breast cancer can skip chemotherapy without hurting their odds of beating the disease — good news from a major study that shows the value of a gene-activity test to gauge e
Gene Test Finds Which Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Waco Tribune-Herald
Mon, 09/28/2015 - 4:15am
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