Current status of breast cancer in Hong Kong

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 474-478

  Chow, Louis W C ^a   Ting, Albert C W ^a   Cheung, Kwok Leung ^a   Au, Gordon K H ^a   Alagaratnam, T T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 0031152222     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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