Surgical removal of the breast primary for patients presenting with metastases - Where to go?

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 391-396

  Gennari, Roberto ^a,b   Audisio, Riccardo A ^c,d  

^a Department of Surgery   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c St Helens Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Metastasis; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

AGE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE METASTASIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 67849092425     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: 15321967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2009.03.003     Document Type: Review

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