Metastatic breast cancer patients: The forgotten heroes!

Breast

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 271-272

  Cardoso, Fatima ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; EARLY CANCER; EDITORIAL; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; METASTASIS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT GROUP;

EID: 71249151069     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2009.09.001     Document Type: Editorial

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