Survival outcome of care by specialist surgeons in breast cancer: A study of 3786 patients in the west of Scotland

British Medical Journal

Volumn 312, Issue 7024, 1996, Pages 145-148

  Gillis, Charles R ^a   Hole, David J ^a  

^a RUCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STATUS; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0029671048     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7024.145     Document Type: Article

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