Relation between appropriateness of primary therapy for early-stage breast carcinoma and increased use of breast-conserving surgery

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9236, 2000, Pages 1148-1153

  Nattinger, Ann Butler ^a,b   Hoffmann, Raymond G ^a   Kneusel, Ronald T ^a   Schapira, Marilyn M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Div of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034734721     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02757-4     Document Type: Article

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