Seven cases of breast cancer recurrence limited to the central nervous system without other visceral metastases

Breast Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-156

  Higashi, Hisato ^a   Fukutomi, Takashi ^a   Watanabe, Toru ^a   Adachi, Isamu ^a   Narabayashi, Masaru ^a   Shibui, Soichirou ^a   Hokamura, Nobukazu ^a   Sadako, Akashi Tanaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Central nervous system; Estrogen receptor; Initial relapse site

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREMENOPAUSE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENOPAUSE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 0034565308     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967448     Document Type: Article

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