Preoperative chemotherapy alone and combined with preoperative radiotherapy in small-size breast cancer

Breast Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 176-180

  Rilke, Franco ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^b   Luini, Alberto ^b   Brambilla, Cristina ^a   Galimberti, Viviana ^b   Zurrida, Stefano ^b   Pilotti, Silvana ^a   Palma, Silvana Di ^a   Zucali, Roberto ^a   Lozza, Laura ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Adjuvant radiotherapy; Breast cancer; Conservative surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000710769     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.1996.tb00092.x     Document Type: Article

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