Reply to letter: "Waiting time for breast cancer treatment"

Jamie L Wagner1, Funda Meric-Bernstam

  • 1Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160 Departments of Investigational, Cancer Therapeutics and Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson, Cancer Center, Houston, TX, fmeric@mdanderson.org.

Annals of Surgery
|October 31, 2013
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