Treatment outcomes for female octogenarians with breast cancer

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 399-401

  Susann, Phillip ^a   Susann, Philip W ^b,e   Ackerman, Stewart ^c   Gibbons, Rick ^c   Hermann, Kellee ^d   Kuhn, Phyllis ^b  

^a VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HAMOT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GANNON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tacoma Washington Vet Admin M   (United States)

^e Hamot Professional Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032901591     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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