Re: Breast-conserving surgery with or without radiotherapy: Pooled-analysis for risks of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence and mortality [4]

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 96, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1111-1112

  Verschraegen, Claire ^a   Vinh Hung, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; META ANALYSIS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; META-ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242686990     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djh215     Document Type: Letter

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