Metastasectomy and surgical resection of the primary tumor in patients with stage IV breast cancer: Time for a second look?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2419-2426

  Pockaj, Barbara A ^a   Wasif, Nabil ^b   Dueck, Amylou C ^a   Wigle, Dennis A ^b   Boughey, Judy C ^b   Degnim, Amy C ^b   Gray, Richard J ^a   McLaughlin, Sarah A ^c   Northfelt, Donald W ^a   Sticca, Robert P ^d   Jakub, James W ^b   Perez, Edith A ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; MORBIDITY; OVARY METASTASIS; PLEURA CAVITY; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THORACOTOMY; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SECOND-LOOK SURGERY;

EID: 77956344558     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1016-1     Document Type: Review

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