Factors influencing treatment patterns of breast cancer patients age 75 and older

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-126

  Hurria, Arti ^a,b   Leung, Denis ^a   Trainor, Kathleen ^a   Borgen, Patrick ^a   Norton, Larry ^a   Hudis, Clifford ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Older patient

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STRATIFICATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0037404082     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-8428(02)00133-6     Document Type: Article

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