Successful management of elderly breast cancer patients treated without radiotherapy

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Valassiadou, Kalliope ^b   Morgan, David A L ^a   Robertson, John F R ^b   Pinder, Sarah E ^b   Cheung, Kwok Leung ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TUMOR VOLUME; AGE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250821057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-5-62     Document Type: Article

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