Multifocal and multicentric breast cancer: Does each focus matter?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 7497-7502

  Coombs, Nathan J ^a   Boyages, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LUNG CARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 32944479539     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.02.1147     Document Type: Article

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