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Patrick Borgen, MD, on the Future of Personalized Medicine in Breast Cancer Care

Breast cancer is a complicated family of diseases – the goal is personalized medicine, and a team-based approach should be the standard of care.

Breast cancer is a complicated family of diseases — the goal is personalized medicine, and a team-based approach should be the standard of care, says Patrick Borgen, MD, with the Maimonides Medical Center in New York.

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