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Lamivudine therapy in HBsAg-carrying breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: prophylactic or preemptive?

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    Ming-Shen Dai & Tsu-Yi Chao

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Dai, MS., Chao, TY. Lamivudine therapy in HBsAg-carrying breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: prophylactic or preemptive?. Breast Cancer Res Treat 92, 95–96 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-005-1942-y

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