Modeling the effect of age in T1-2 breast cancer using the SEER database

BMC Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tai, Patricia ^a,g   Cserni, Gábor ^b   van de Steene, Jan ^c   Vlastos, Georges ^d   Voordeckers, Mia ^c   Royce, Melanie ^e   Lee, Sang Joon ^f   Vinh Hung, Vincent ^c   Storne, Guy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b BÁCS KISKUN COUNTY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Allan Blair Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; BREAST TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 27644459506     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-130     Document Type: Article

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