The impact of lymph node metastases on the survival of breast cancer patients with ten or more positive lymph nodes

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 902-906

  Tsuchiya, Atsuo ^a   Kanno, Masahiko ^a   Abe, Rikiya ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030863540     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02388136     Document Type: Article

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