Breast cancer recurrences in elderly patients after lumpectomy

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 735-739

  Shah, Shuchi ^a   Doyle, Kimberly ^a   Lange, Ethan M ^a   Shen, Perry ^a   Pennell, Timothy ^a   Ferree, Carolyn ^a   Levine, Edward A ^a   Perrier, Nancy D ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; LUNG CARCINOMA; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 0036673278     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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