Breast cancer in Hong Kong, Southern China: The first population-based analysis of epidemiological characteristics, stage-specific, cancer-specific, and disease-free survival in breast cancer patients: 1997-2001

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3072-3078

  Kwong, Ava ^a,b   Mang, Oscar W K ^b   Wong, Connie H N ^a   Chau, W W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055188237     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-1960-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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