Detection of the First Recurrence during Intensive Follow-up of Breast Cancer Patients

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 597-600

  Imoto, Shigeru ^a   Jitsuiki, Yoko ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Recurrence; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; BONE AND BONES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032187202     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/28.10.597     Document Type: Article

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