Pathologic response to preoperative systemic therapy: The new biological paradigm for predicting outcome and planning therapy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 713-715

  Anderson, Benjamin O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DRUG RESPONSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPH FLOW; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; NOTE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0642311150     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2003.05.932     Document Type: Editorial

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