Many breast cancer patients do not complete long-term hormonal therapies. Text messaging emerged as a tool to enhance medication compliance, but a trial of twice-weekly text message reminders (published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology) failed to improve adherence. The results, however, pave the way for 2nd generation texting approaches.

中文翻译：

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短信可提高乳腺癌辅助内分泌治疗的依从性。

许多乳腺癌患者未完成长期激素治疗。短信已成为增强药物依从性的工具，但每周两次的短信提醒试验（发表在《临床肿瘤学杂志》上）未能提高依从性。但是，结果为第二代短信方法铺平了道路。