Older women with breast cancer: Slow progress, great opportunity, now is the time

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 4608-4610

  Muss, Hyman B ^a   Busby Whitehead, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 83355166958     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.38.6888     Document Type: Article

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