Postmastectomy radiotherapy reduces locoregional recurrence in elderly women with high-risk breast cancer

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 623-629

  Lee, J C ^a   Truong, Pauline T ^a,b   Kader, H A ^a,b   Speers, C H ^a   Olivotto, I A ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Breast cancer; Elderly; Locoregional recurrence; Mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 28244448270     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2005.06.014     Document Type: Article

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