If at first or second you don't succeed: Mastectomy?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 864-865

  Kuerer, Henry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY;

EID: 27144510087     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2005.12.013     Document Type: Editorial

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