Do younger female breast cancer patients have a poorer prognosis? Results from a population-based survival analysis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 761-765

  Chia, Kee Seng ^a   Du, Wen Bo ^a   Sankaranarayanan, R ^b   Sankila, Risto ^b   Wang, Hao ^a   Lee, Jeannette ^a   Seow, Adeline ^a   Lee, Hin Peng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer registry; Epidemiology, record linkage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGNOSIS; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0346655246     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.11632     Document Type: Article

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