Histopathology of breast cancer among African-American women

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2003, Pages 253-257

  Middleton, Lavinia P ^a   Chen, Vivien ^b   Perkins, George H ^a   Pinn, Vivian ^c   Page, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Breast cancer; Histology; Medullary; Minority; Pathology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HORMONE;

BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; NEGRO; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037217157     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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