Favourable long-term results after surgical removal of lung metastases of breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 485-491

  Yoshimoto, Masataka ^a,b   Tada, Keiichiro ^a   Nishimura, Seiichiro ^a   Makita, Masujiro ^a   Iwase, Takuji ^a   Kasumi, Fujio ^a   Okumura, Sakae ^a   Sato, Yukitoshi ^a   Nakagawa, Ken ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cure rate; Long survival; Lung metastasis; Prognosis; Pulmonary metastasis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46949108632     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9747-9     Document Type: Article

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