Validation analysis of Japanese histological classification of breast cancer using the National Summary of Hospital Cancer Registry 2007, Japan

Cancer Science

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1597-1601

  Teramoto, Norihiro ^a,b   Tanimizu, Masahito ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION SHIKOKU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b Clinical Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST PAPILLOTUBULAR CARCINOMA; BREAST SCIRRHOUS CARCINOMA; BREAST SOLID TUBULAR CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960384538     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2011.01984.x     Document Type: Article

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