Is Breast cancer the same disease in Asian and Western countries?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2308-2324

  Leong, Stanley P L ^a   Shen, Zhen Zhou ^b   Liu, Tse Jia ^c   Agarwal, Gaurav ^d   Tajima, Tomoo ^e   Paik, Nam Sun ^f   Sandelin, Kerstin ^g   Derossis, Anna ^h   Cody, Hiram ⁱ   Foulkes, William D ^h  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Korea Cancer Center Hospital   (South Korea)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; BREAST TUMOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 77957124003     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-010-0683-1     Document Type: Article

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