Effects of preoperative chemotherapy on the morphology of resectable breast carcinoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 893-900

  Sharkey, Francis E ^a   Addington, Shari L ^a   Fowler, Larry J ^a   Page, Carey P ^a   Cruz, Anatolio B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Downstaging; Grading; Morphology; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Tumor regression

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AXILLA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 0029759604     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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