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Breast cancer—advanced stage: “cure—still a long way to go?”

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    Herbert Stöger MD

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Stöger, H. Breast cancer—advanced stage: “cure—still a long way to go?”. memo 5, 85–86 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12254-012-0022-3

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