Central Nervous System Metastases in Patients with HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: Incidence, Treatment, and Survival in Patients from registHER

Brufsky et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd67f87dbdc4ad1440c8c4 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-10-2962

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