Breast cancer in older women: Screening and selection of locoregional therapy

Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 328-331

  Sener, Stephen F ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

axillary dissection; axillary radiation; breast neoplasms; comorbidity; tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

AGE; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 0029737502     PISSN: 87560437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2388(199609/10)12:5<328::AID-SSU7>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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