'Cure' from breast cancer among two populations of women followed for 23 years after diagnosis

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1331-1336

  Woods, Laura M ^a   Rachet, B ^a   Lambert, P C ^b   Coleman, M P ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Breast cancer; Cure; England; Long term; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREND STUDY; BREAST TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449084002     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdn791     Document Type: Article

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