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Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group – DBCG: History, organization, and status of scientific achievements at 30-year anniversary

Mogens Blichert-Toft The Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, DBCG Secretariat, Rigshospitalet, CopenhagenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Peer Christiansen The Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, DBCG Secretariat, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
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Henning T. Mouridsen The Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, DBCG Secretariat, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
Pages 497-505 | Received 28 Jun 2007, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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