Prognostic importance of occult axillary lymph node micrometastases from breast cancers

The Lancet

Volumn 335, Issue 8705, 1990, Pages 1565-1568

 

^a Ludwig) Breast Cancer Study Group

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025297298     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(90)91386-O     Document Type: Article

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