Hormone drug type makes survival difference in advanced breast cancer
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... the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) estrogen plus progestin trial. This portion of the trial, which was stoppe...f prior CVD and participating in the estrogen plus progestin group of the WHI trial, we found that minor and major baseline ECG abnormalities were associated wit...