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RESPONSE: Re: Continuing Outcomes Relevant to Evista: Breast Cancer Incidence in Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Women in a Randomized Trial of Raloxifene
Affiliations of authors: Cancer Institute Medical Group, Santa Monica, CA (SM); University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (JAC); University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (EBC); Institute of Cancer Research, Parkside Oncology Clinic, London, United Kingdom (TJP); Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN (JM, DD, RJS); San Francisco Coordinating Center, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, CA (SRC)
Correspondence to: Silvana Martino, DO, Cancer Institute Medical Group, 2001 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 560W, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (e-mail: smartino@cimg.org).
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