Breast conserving surgery versus mastectomy: Cancer practice by general surgeons in Iran

BMC Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Najafi, Massoome ^a   Ebrahimi, Mandana ^a   Kaviani, Ahmad ^b   Hashemi, Esmat ^a   Montazeri, Ali ^a  

^a Iranian Center for Breast Cancer   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTAL MAIL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; WORK; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STAFF; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26844531246     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-35     Document Type: Article

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