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even after reading the full article three times
I am not sure. Maybe it is because they are Japanese! They certainly do not express themselves well!
They discuss how the ARR should influence how long one treats w tamoxifen, AIs, when to give chemotherapy, but do not specify the treatment(s) the breast cancer patients received, even as to whether they had BCS vs mastectomy, radiation therapy or not, tamoxifen vs AI, chemo /what type/or not.
That leads one to think perhaps they got no treatment other than surgery, ...but it is dangerous to make assumptions!
Perhaps next month's publication will have a letter to the editor regarding this!
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