Breast cancer: Presentation and intervention in women with gastrointestinal metastasis and carcinomatosis

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 886-894

  McLemore, Elisabeth C ^a   Pockaj, Barbara A ^a   Reynolds, Carol ^b   Gray, Richard J ^a   Hernandez, Jose L ^a   Grant, Clive S ^b   Donohue, John H ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Carcinomatosis; Gastrointestinal metastasis; Palliative surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ESOPHAGUS METASTASIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CODING; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE CARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27144529055     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2005.03.030     Document Type: Review

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