Dr. William Wood on the Clinical Risk of Chemo in Early Breast Cancer

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CancerNetwork® spoke with Dr. William Wood on the clinical risk of chemotherapy in early breast cancer. 

CancerNetwork® spoke with Dr. William Wood, professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, about the clinical risk of chemotherapy in early breast cancer.

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