Does surgery modify growth kinetics of breast cancer micrometastases?

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 490-492

  Demicheli, R ^a   Valagussa, P ^a   Bonadonna, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Growth kinetics; Micrometastases; Surgery signals; Tumour dormancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL KINETICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035902803     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2001.1969     Document Type: Article

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