Breast cancer in elderly women

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 291-299

  Djordjevic, Nebojsa ^a   Karanikolic, Aleksandar ^a   Pesic, Miomir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Elderly women

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH CENTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644365310     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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