Conservative treatment of breast cancer: Its evolution

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-198

  Luini, Alberto ^a,b   Gatti, Giovanna ^a,c   Galimberti, Viviana ^a   Zurrida, Stefano ^a   Intra, Mattia ^a   Gentilini, Oreste ^a   Paganelli, Giovanni ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^d   Orecchia, Roberto ^d   Veronesi, Paolo ^a,b   Veronesi, Umberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c School of General Surgery   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Conservative surgery; Intraoperative radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 27944496541     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-004-7376-0     Document Type: Article

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