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Old 11-24-2013, 01:51 PM   #12
AlaskaAngel
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Re: Too old for Chemo

The European one is the St. Gallen breast cancer conference.

It is interesting to see how much the highly experienced and trained professional opinions vary when coming up with recommendations for guidelines, no matter which set of guidelines is used:

http://www.sisbreast.org/Material/Ar.../consensus.pdf
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