Relative value of physical examination, mammography, and breast sonography in evaluating the size of the primary tumor and regional lymph node metastases in women receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast carcinoma

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1565-1569

  Herrada, Juan ^a   Iyer, Revathy B ^a   Atkinson, E Neely ^a   Sneige, Nour ^a   Buzdar, Aman U ^a   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOXORUBICIN; EVALUATION STUDIES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030769452     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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