Breast cancer classification: Time for a change

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2427-2428

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Zurrida, Stefano ^a   Goldhirsch, Aron ^a   Rotmensz, Nicole ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 66349109340     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.21.2647     Document Type: Note

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