Primary chemotherapy to avoid mastectomy in tumors with diameters of three centimeters or more

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 82, Issue 19, 1990, Pages 1539-1545

  Bonadonna, Gianni ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Brambilla, Cristina ^a   Ferrari, Laura ^a   Luini, Alberto ^a   Greco, Marco ^a   Bartoli, Cesare ^a   Yoldi, Gianfranco Coopmans De ^a   Zucali, Roberto ^a   Rilke, Franco ^a   Andreola, Salvatore ^a   Silvestrini, Rosella ^a   Fronzo, Giovanni Di ^a   Valagussa, Pinuccia ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DNA CONTENT; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CISPLATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EPIRUBICIN; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; METHOTREXATE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0024987463     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/82.19.1539     Document Type: Article

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