Results of a breast-cancer-surgery trial compared with observational data from routine practice

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 9007, 1996, Pages 1000-1003

  Marubini, Ettore ^a,b,d   Mariani, Luigi ^a   Salvadori, Bruno ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^c   Saccozzi, Roberto ^a   Merson, Mirella ^a   Zucali, Roberto ^a   Rilke, Franco ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^d Ist di Stat Medica e Biometria   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0029990331     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90145-2     Document Type: Article

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