Mastectomy or breast conserving surgery? Factors affecting type of surgical treatment for breast cancer - A classification tree approach

BMC Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Martin, Michael A ^a   Meyricke, Ramona ^a   O'Neill, Terry ^a   Roberts, Steven ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER REGISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TUMOR BURDEN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33646595930     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-98     Document Type: Article

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