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Hi, I was reading a paper published in JCO "Prediction of risk of distant recurrence using 21-gene recurrence score in node-negative and node-positive postmenopausal patients with breast cancer treated with anastrozole or tamoxifen: a TransATAC study" (ICO 2010 28: 1829). The author uses a method to estimate the 9-year risk of distant recurrence as a function of continuous recurrence score (RS). The method is special as author states: ? "To define the continuous relation between RS, as a linear covariate, and 9-year risk of dist...