The sequencing of radiation therapy and chemotherapy after mastectomy in premenopausal women with breast cancer

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 563-569

  Cakir, Saban ^a   Gursel, Bilge ^a   Meydan, Deniz ^a   Yildiz, Levent ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Chemotherapy; Prognostic factors; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PREMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 1342310251     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyg102     Document Type: Article

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