Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Status in Operable Invasive Breast Cancer: Is It of Any Prognostic Value?

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2578-

  Rampaul, Raj S ^a   Pinder, Sarah E ^a   Wencyk, Pete M ^a   Nicholson, Rob I ^a   Blamey, Roger W ^a   Robertson, John F ^a   Ellis, Ian O ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 1842530544     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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