standard regimen. As shown in Figure 2 , RDI less than 85% ranged from 15.6% for patients with breast cancer treated with dose-dense AC followed by paclitaxel every 2 weeks to 87.6% for patients with CRC treated with 5-FU (every 8 weeks). Colony
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