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Can Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Cause Hyperlipidemia?
Most people have had some type of chemotherapy for illness during their lives - for example, taking penicillin for an infection. Today, the word "chemotherapy" is used most often to describe a method of
In the early days, chemotherapy was considered a last resort to be used only in terminal cases when all else had failed to cure a cancer. When it...
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Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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