Breast cancer as heterogeneous disease: Contributing factors and carcinogenesis mechanisms

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 483-493

  Kravchenko, Julia ^a   Akushevich, Igor ^b   Seewaldt, Victoria L ^a   Abernethy, Amy P ^a   Lyerly, H Kim ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age patterns; Breast ductal carcinoma; Breast lobular carcinoma; Carcinogenesis; Estrogen receptor; Grade; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NORTH CAROLINA; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 79959721589     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1347-z     Document Type: Article

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