Breast-Conserving Surgery in Older Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer: Current Patterns of Treatment Across the United States

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Smith, Grace L ^a   Xu, Ying ^a   Shih, Ya Chen T ^a   Giordano, Sharon H ^a   Smith, Benjamin D ^a,b   Hunt, Kelly K ^a   Strom, Eric A ^a   Perkins, George H ^a   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER INVASION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349434695     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.06.363     Document Type: Article

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