Sequencing of chemotherapy and radiation in lymph node-negative breast cancer

Cancer Journal from Scientific American

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-164

  Buchholz, Thomas A ^a,b   Hunt, Kelly K ^a   Amosson, Chad M ^a   Tucker, Susan L ^b   Strom, Eric A ^a   McNeese, Marsha D ^a   Buzdar, Aman U ^b   Singletary, S Eva ^a   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^b  

^a Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chemotherapy; Negative lymph nodes; Radiation; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032980284     PISSN: 10814442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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