Histologic associations and long-term cancer risk in columnar cell lesions of the breast: A retrospective cohort and a nested case-control study

Cancer

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2415-2421

  Boulos, Fouad I ^a,b   Dupont, William D ^a   Simpson, Jean F ^a   Schuyler, Peggy A ^a   Sanders, Melinda E ^a   Freudenthal, Marcia E ^a   Page, David L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Breast cancer risk; Columnar cell atypia; Columnar cell lesion; Epithelial hyperplasia; Flat epithelial atypia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 55549085869     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23873     Document Type: Article

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