The effect of less than definitive care on breast carcinoma recurrence and mortality

Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1739-1747

  Lash, Timothy L ^a   Silliman, Rebecca A ^a,b   Guadagnoli, Edward ^c   Mor, Vincent ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Epidemiology; Prevention and control; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RHODE ISLAND; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034667985     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20001015)89:8<1739::AID-CNCR14>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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