Breast cancer in octogenarians

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1664-1668

  Evron, Ella ^a   Goldberg, Hadassah ^b   Kuzmin, Alexander ^b   Gutman, Roee ^c   Rizel, Shulamith ^d   Sella, Avishy ^a,d   Gutman, Haim ^d  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Beilinson Campus ^*

^d RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Disease specific survival; Elderly; Local treatment; Locoregional recurrence; Octogenarian patients

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

AGED; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33646041339     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21788     Document Type: Review

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