Women with large breasts are at an increased risk of advanced breast cancer

International Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sellahewa, Chaminda ^a   Nightingale, Peter ^b   Carmichael, Amtul R ^a  

^a RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 48249110681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7800-5-16     Document Type: Review

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