Letter to the editor: Breast cancer among HIV-infected patients: The experience of the European Institute of Oncology [1]

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-142

  Intra, Mattia ^a,b   Gentilini, Oreste ^b   Brenelli, Fabricio ^b   Chagas, Eduardo Malaquias ^b   Veronesi, Umberto ^b   Sandri, Maria Teresa ^b  

^a European Institute of Oncology ^*  (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 23044470721     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20315     Document Type: Letter

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