Future prospects in limited surgery for early breast cancer

Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-45

  Gazet, J C ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

axillary nodes; cosmesis; resection margins; Trucut biopsy; wide local excision

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER; EXCISION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

AXILLA; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 0030064677     PISSN: 87560437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2388(199601/02)12:1<39::AID-SSU6>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Review

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