Assessment of tumor size for multifocal primary breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 442-446

  Fish, Edward B ^a   Chapman, Judy Anne W ^a   Link, Marilyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Multifocal disease

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CANCER; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031817450     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303863     Document Type: Article

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