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Competing Risks Analysis of Epirubicin Cardiotoxicity
Present recommendations for maximum cumulative dosage of epirubicin during chemotherapy have been calculated based on this drug's risk of cardiotoxicity in the general population. However, a better estimate of optimum dosage can be obtained for defined patient subgroups when other factors that put them at risk of death from congestive heart failure and the competing factors that put them at risk of death from other causes, including cancer, are taken into account. Ryberg et al. (p. 1058) used data from a Danish population of patients with metastatic breast cancer to define patient characteristics that are associated
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