Do surgical oncologists achieve lower rates of local-regional recurrence in node positive breast cancer treated with mastectomy alone?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 2-7

  Latosinsky, Steven ^a   Bear, Harry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiotherapy; Breast neoplasms; Lymphatic metastasis; Mastectomy; Modified radical; Outcomes assessment; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034871518     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.1114     Document Type: Article

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