Prognosis of bilateral synchronous breast cancer in Vaud, Switzerland

Breast

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-91

  Levi, Fabio ^a   Randimbison, Lalao ^a   Te, Van Cong ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Breast cancer; Cancer registry; Survival; Synchronous

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILATERAL CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0038747203     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9776(02)00275-8     Document Type: Article

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