Impact of micrometastases in the sentinel node of patients with invasive breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 4679-4684

  Hansen, Nora M ^a   Grube, Baiba ^a   Ye, Xing ^a   Turner, Roderick R ^a   Brenner, R James ^a   Sim, Myung Shin ^a   Giuliano, Armando E ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TUMOR VOLUME; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STATISTICS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 70350482499     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.19.0686     Document Type: Article

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