Early detection of second breast cancers improves prognosis in breast cancer survivors

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1505-1510

  Houssami, Nehmath ^a,b   Ciatto, S ^a   Martinelli, F ^a   Bonardi, R ^a   Duffy, S W ^c  

^a Istituto Scientifico della Regione Toscana   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contralateral cancer; Disease specific survival; Early detection; Ipsilateral breast relapse; Lead time bias; Second breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SECOND CANCER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 69849107753     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdp037     Document Type: Article

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