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AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer), BCSM (breast cancer–specific mortality), DRFS (distant relapse-free survival), ER (estrogen receptor), FDSCC (Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center), HR (hazard ratio), LN (lymph node), NCT (neoadjuvant chemotherapy), pCR (pathological complete remission), PR (progesterone receptor), RFS (relapse-free survival), SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results)Purchase one-time access:
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Grant Support: This research was supported by grants 30971143 , 30972936 , and 81001169 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China , grant SHDC12010116 from the Shanghai United Developing Technology Project of Municipal Hospitals , the Key Clinical Program of the Ministry of Health (2010-2012), the Zhuo-Xue Project of Fudan University (K.-D.Y.), and grant 11QA1401400 from the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology Fund for the 2011 Qimingxing Project (K.-D.Y.).
Role of the Sponsors: The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.