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High-Dose Chemotherapy Not Superior to Conventional Chemotherapy in High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients
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A randomized trial has found that breast cancer patients with four or more
positive lymph nodes who receive high-dose chemotherapy with a stem cell
transplant have similar survival rates to those who receive conventional
chemotherapy. Previous