Time-Dependent Effects on Survival in Breast Carcinoma: Results of 20 Years of Follow-Up from the Swedish Two-County Study

Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1331-1336

  Warwick, Jane ^a   Tabàr, Lazlo ^b   Vitak, Bedrich ^c   Duffy, Stephen W ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FALUN HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Cox regression analysis; Frailty; Prognostic factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SWEDEN; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642283620     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20140     Document Type: Article

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