Role of age as a prognostic factor in breast cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 213-216

  Tsuchiya, Atsuo ^a   Abe, Rikiya ^a   Kanno, Masahiko ^a   Ohtake, Tohru ^a   Fukushima, Toshihiko ^a   Nomizu, Tadashi ^a   Kimijima, Izo ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

breast cancer; prognostic factor; survival; young age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030935608     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00941647     Document Type: Article

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