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The King’s/Cambridge Trial

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Clinical Trials in ‘Early’ Breast Cancer

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 4))

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In 1842 Sir James Syme1, Professor of Surgery in Edinburgh stated; “the results of operations for carcinoma when the glands are affected is almost always unsatisfactory however perfectly they may have seemed to be taken away. The reason of this probably is that the glands do not participate in the disease unless the system is strongly disposed to it”. It has taken us well over a hundred years to rediscover this fundamental truth concerning the biological nature of carcinoma of the breast.

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  1. King’s College Hospital Medical School, University of London, UK

    Michael Baum

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  1. Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation, Statistik und Datenverarbeitung der Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 325, D-6900, Heidelberg 1, Deutschland

    H. R. Scheurlen , G. Weckesser  & I. Armbruster ,  & 

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Baum, M. (1979). The King’s/Cambridge Trial. In: Scheurlen, H.R., Weckesser, G., Armbruster, I. (eds) Clinical Trials in ‘Early’ Breast Cancer. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93118-5_10

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