Breast cancer recurrence: Follow up after treatment for primary breast cancer

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 941, 2004, Pages 172-176

  Hiramanek, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1642270492     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2003.010728     Document Type: Review

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