Breast Radiotherapy for Occult Breast Cancer with Axillary Nodal Metastases - Does it Reduce the Local Recurrence Rate and Increase Overall Survival?

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-100

  Masinghe, S P ^a   Faluyi, O O ^a   Kerr, G R ^a   Kunkler, I H ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph nodes; Breast; Metastases; Occult; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; TAMOXIFEN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OCCULT CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79251641437     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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