Breast carcinoma in young women aged 30 or less in Northern Pakistan-The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Experience

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1079-1082

  Mamoon, Nadira ^a   Hassan, Usman ^a   Mushtaq, Sajid ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Histopathology; Pakistan; Tumour characteristics; Young females

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; ONSET AGE; PAKISTAN; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAKISTAN; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 77956640124     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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