Perceptions of contralateral breast cancer: An overestimation of risk

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3129-3136

  Abbott, Andrea ^a   Rueth, Natasha ^a   Pappas Varco, Susan ^a   Kuntz, Karen ^b   Kerr, Elizabeth ^a   Tuttle, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRALATERAL BREAST CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THERAPEUTIC MISCONCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 83055170004     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-1914-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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