Breast cancer multifocality, disease extent, and survival

Human Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1761-1769

  Tot, Tibor ^a   Gere, Mária ^a   Pekár, Gyula ^a   Tarján, Miklós ^a   Hofmeyer, Syster ^a   Hellberg, Dan ^b   Lindquist, David ^a   Chen, Tony Hsiu His ^c   Yen, Amy Ming Fang ^d   Chiu, Sherry Yueh Hsia ^e   Tabár, László ^a  

^a FALUN HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Center for Clinical Research Dalarna   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Disease extent; Large section histopathology; Multifocality; Subgross distribution; Survival

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 80054710060     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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