Race and clinical outcome in breast cancer in a series with long-term follow-up evaluation

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2329-2337

  Heimann, Ruth ^a   Ferguson, Donald ^a   Powers, Claire ^a   Suri, Daesman ^a   Weichselbaum, Ralph R ^a   Hellman, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030991546     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1997.15.6.2329     Document Type: Article

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