A Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating Sequential Methotrexate and Fluorouracil in the Treatment of Patients with Node-Negative Breast Cancer Who Have Estrogen-Receptor-Negative Tumors
- 23 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 320 (8), 473-478
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198902233200801
Abstract
We evaluated the postoperative use of sequential methotrexate and fluorouracil followed by leucovorin in 679 patients with primary breast cancer, histologically negative axillary nodes, and estrogen-receptor–negative (<10 fmol) tumors.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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