Mammographic tumor features can predict long-term outcomes reliably in women with 1-14-mm invasive breast carcinoma: Suggestions for the reconsideration of current therapeutic practice and the TNM classification system

Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1745-1759

  Tabar, Laszlo ^a   Chen, Hsiu Hsi Tony ^b   Yen, M F Amy ^c,d   Tot, Tibor ^a   Tung, Tao Hsin ^b   Chen, Li Sheng ^b   Chiu, Yueh Hsia ^b   Duffy, Stephen W ^c   Smith, Robert A ^e  

^a FALUN HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Casting type calcifications; Histologic grade; Invasive breast carcinoma; Lymph node status; Stellate lesions; Tumor attributes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4744355303     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20582     Document Type: Article

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