Surgical treatment for elderly breast cancer patients over the age of 70

International Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 169-174

  Yoshinaga, Yasuteru ^a   Shirakusa, Takayuki ^a   Baba, Miki ^a   Beppu, Richiko ^a   Hiratsuka, Masafumi ^a   Maekawa, Takafumi ^a   Kawahara, Katsunobu ^a   Yamashita, Yuichi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Elderly patient; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; ADULT; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542570497     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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