Relationship between age and axillary lymph node involvement in women with breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2931-2937

  Wildiers, Hans ^a   Van Calster, Ben ^a   Van De Poll Franse, Lonneke V ^a   Hendrickx, Wouter ^a   Røislien, Jo ^a   Smeets, Ann ^a   Paridaens, Robert ^a   Deraedt, Karen ^a   Leunen, Karin ^a   Weltens, Caroline ^a   Van Huffel, Sabine ^a   Christiaens, Marie Rose ^a   Neven, Patrick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; AGE; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649983322     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.16.7619     Document Type: Article

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