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Yoshinori Ito received lecture fees from Chugai, Esai, Novartis and research grants from Novartis, Chugai, Parexel, Esai, Sanofi, Taiho, EPS, Dai-ichi-sankyo, Boehringer-ingelheim. The other authors declared no potential conflicts of interest.

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This article is an English digested edition of the Clinical Practice Guideline of 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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Yamauchi, C., Sekiguchi, K., Nishioka, A. et al. The Japanese Breast Cancer Society Clinical Practice Guideline for radiation treatment of breast cancer, 2015 edition. Breast Cancer 23, 378–390 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-016-0672-9

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