Independent prognostic factors in breast cancer patients

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-75

  Narita, Masashi ^a,b   Nakao, Kazuyasu ^a   Ogino, Nobuo ^a   Nakahara, Masaaki ^a   Onishi, Ayumi ^a   Tsujimoto, Masahiko ^a  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, ERBB-2; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PLOIDIES; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0031963157     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(97)00225-0     Document Type: Article

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