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01-12-2013 | Editorial

The Paradigm Shifts in the Management of Breast Cancer—Have We Finally Arrived?

Author: Chintamani

Published in: Indian Journal of Surgery | Issue 6/2013

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“In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. This is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet

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Title: The Paradigm Shifts in the Management of Breast Cancer—Have We Finally Arrived?
Author: Chintamani
Publication date: 01-12-2013
Publisher: Springer India
Published in: Indian Journal of Surgery / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0972-2068
Electronic ISSN: 0973-9793
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-013-1022-1

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