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Adjuvant chemotherapy for operable breast cancer with positive axillary nodes

An interim view of still preliminary data

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Carter, S.K. Adjuvant chemotherapy for operable breast cancer with positive axillary nodes. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2, 147–150 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00205430

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