Estimate of tumor growth time for breast cancer local recurrences: Rapid growth after wake-up?

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-137

  Demicheli, Romano ^a   Terenziani, Monica ^a   Bonadonna, Gianni ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gompertzian growth; Growth models; Local recurrence; Tumor dormancy; Tumor growth time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031771829     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005887422022     Document Type: Article

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