Metaplastic breast cancer: Clinical features and outcomes

American Surgeon

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 725-730

  Gibson, Glen R ^a   Qian, Dajun ^a   Ku, Joseph K ^a   Lai, Lily L ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644934353     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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