Diagnosis, Clinical Staging, and Treatment of Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Multiyear Study of a Large Controlled Population

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-190

  Legorreta, Antonio P ^a,b   Chernicoff, Helen O ^b   Trinh, Jennifer B ^b   Parker, Robert G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Health Benchmarks Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast conserving treatment; Mammography; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RECORD; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842421268     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.coc.0000054695.47732.0A     Document Type: Article

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