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Yoshinori Ito received lecture frees from Chugai, Esai and Novartis. He also received research Grants from Novartis, Chugai, Parexel, Esai, Sanofi, Taiho, EPS, Dai-ichi-sankyo and Boehringer-ingelheim. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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This article is an English digest of the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Breast Cancer 2015, published by Kanehara & Co., Ltd. Details of recommendation grades were explained in the previous report (Breast Cancer. 2015;22:1–4).

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Horii, R., Honma, N., Ogiya, A. et al. The Japanese Breast Cancer Society clinical practice guidelines for pathological diagnosis of breast cancer, 2015 edition. Breast Cancer 23, 391–399 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-016-0675-6

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