Surgical resection of the primary tumor in stage IV breast cancer patients: Is a randomized, controlled trial imperative or too costly?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 85-86

  Fields, Ryan C ^a   Margenthaler, Julie A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR GROWTH; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 59649104758     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21184     Document Type: Editorial

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