Vitiligo in the affected breast during neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 197-198

  Rao, Maithili V ^a   Shayne, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; PACLITAXEL;

ANAMNESIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOIMMUNITY; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPIGMENTATION; DESQUAMATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN TOXICITY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VITILIGO;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; VITILIGO;

EID: 69049105901     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-0074-6     Document Type: Letter

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