Association between extent of axillary lymph node dissection and survival in patients with stage I breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 140-149

  Sosa, Julie Ann ^a   Diener West, Marie ^b   Gusev, Yuriy ^a   Choti, Michael A ^a   Lange, Julie R ^a   Dooley, William C ^a   Zeiger, Martha A ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Breast cancer; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032443504     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303847     Document Type: Article

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