Preserving life and conserving the breast

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 736-

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Zurrida, Stefano ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASTECTOMY; NOTE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK REDUCTION; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67649365636     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70117-2     Document Type: Note

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