Angiosarcoma of the breast following surgery and radiotherapy for breast cancer

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 727-736

  Abbott, Rachel ^a   Palmieri, Carlo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; IMATINIB; PACLITAXEL; SORAFENIB; THALIDOMIDE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANGIOSARCOMA; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST ANGIOSARCOMA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOGENETICS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHEMA; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED;

EID: 57049155394     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc1242     Document Type: Review

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