T4 category revision enhances the accuracy and significance of stage III breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2569-2575

  Güth, Uwe ^a   Singer, Gad ^b   Langer, Igor ^a   Schötzau, Andreas ^c   Herberich, Linda ^a   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^a   Wight, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c JPS Institute for Biomathematics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Locally advanced breast cancer; Skin involvement; Staging; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN METASTASIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745205879     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21920     Document Type: Article

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