Impact of guideline conformity on breast cancer therapy: Results of a 13-year retrospective cohort study

Onkologie

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 21-28

  Wöckel, Achim ^a   Varga, Dominic ^a   Atassi, Ziad ^a   Kurzeder, Christian ^a   Wolters, Regine ^b   Wischnewsky, Manfred ^b   Wulff, Christine ^a   Kreienberg, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Conformity; Guidelines; Outcome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GONADORELIN AGONIST; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY TUMOR; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77249097499     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000264617     Document Type: Article

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