Ten year results of a randomised trial comparing two conservative treatment strategies for small size breast cancer

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1156-1162

  Mariani, L ^a   Salvadori, B ^b   Marubini, E ^a,c   Conti, A R ^b   Rovini, D ^b   Cusumano, F ^b   Rosolin, T ^a   Andreola, S ^b   Zucali, R ^b   Rilke, F ^a   Veronesi, U ^d  

^a Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio   (Italy)

^b INT   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast conservation surgery; Breast neoplasms; Randomised clinical trials

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7344264074     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(98)00137-3     Document Type: Article

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