Survival of patients with high-risk early-stage breast cancer has been improved by chemotherapy administration at shorter dose intervals: 'dose-dense' therapy. Validation for this approach is provided by the AGO trial, which demonstrated the biggest survival advantage of any study of dose-dense chemotherapy to date.
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Morris, P., Hudis, C. Optimizing dose-dense regimens for early-stage breast cancer. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 7, 678–679 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2010.188
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