Lymphoid infiltration as a prognostic variable for early-onset breast carcinomas

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 817-819

  Ménard, Sylvie ^a   Tomasic, Gorana ^a   Casalini, Patrizia ^a   Balsari, Andrea ^a   Pilotti, Silvana ^a   Cascinelli, Natale ^a   Salvadori, Bruno ^a   Colnaghi, Maria Ines ^a   Rilke, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1842338058     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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