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It was only on the flight back to Milan, ten thousand feet above the earth, that Bonadonna was finally inundated with questions about his trial by other researchers on his flight.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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“Adjuvant” chemotherapy—chemotherapy given after surgery, as in the Bonadonna and Fisher breast cancer trials—contributed to another 10,000 to 20,000 lives saved annually.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Suave, personable, and sophisticated, impeccably dressed in custom-cut Milanese suits, Bonadonna made an instant impression at the NCI.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Bonadonna worked at a large cancer center in Milan called the Istituto Tumori, where he had a close friendship with the chief breast surgeon, Umberto Veronesi.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Convinced by Carbone who was still struggling to get a similar trial launched in America, Bonadonna and Veronesi, the only surgeon-chemotherapist pair seemingly on talking terms with each other, proposed a large randomized trial to study chemotherapy after breast surgery for early-stage breast cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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“The surgeons were not just skeptical,” Bonadonna recalled.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But the two groups, Bonadonna reported, had clearly parted ways.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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“Adjuvant” chemotherapy—chemotherapy given after surgery, as in the Bonadonna and Fisher breast cancer trials—contributed to another 10,000 to 20,000 lives saved annually.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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On an overcast morning in the winter of 1975, Bonadonna flew to Brussels to present his results at a conference of European oncologists.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In 1972, as the NCI was scouring the nation for a site where “adjuvant chemotherapy” after surgery could be tested, the oncologist Gianni Bonadonna came to Bethesda to visit the institute.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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