Patients' refusal of surgery strongly impairs breast cancer survival

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 276-280

  Verkooijen, Helena M ^a   Fioretta, Gérald M ^a   Rapiti, Elisabetta ^a   Bonnefoi, Hervé ^b   Vlastos, Georges ^b   Kurtz, John ^b   Schaefer, Peter ^b   Sappino, André Pascal ^b   Schubert, Hyma ^a   Bouchardy, Christine ^a,c  

^a GENEVA CANCER REGISTRY   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 22744437700     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000171305.31703.84     Document Type: Article

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