Undertreatment strongly decreases prognosis of breast cancer in elderly women

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3580-3587

  Bouchardy, Christine ^a   Rapiti, Elisabetta ^a   Fioretta, Gérald ^a   Laissue, Paul ^a   Neyroud Caspar, Isabelle ^a   Schäfer, Peter ^a   Kurtz, John ^a   Sappino, André Pascal ^a   Vlastos, Georges ^a  

^a GENEVA CANCER REGISTRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0142008446     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.02.046     Document Type: Review

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