Radiation therapy in management of breast cancer

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 463-467

  Asrari, Fariba ^a   Gage, Irene ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sibley Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0032750183     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001622-199911000-00006     Document Type: Short Survey

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