Breast cancer treatment in older women

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-102

  Howard McNatt, Marissa ^a   Hughes, Kevin S ^a   Schnaper, Lauren A ^b   Jones, Julie L ^a   Gadd, Michele ^a   Smith, Barbara L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; EXEMESTANE; FLUOROURACIL; LETROZOLE; METHOTREXATE; PROTEIN P53; TAMOXIFEN;

AGE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG SAFETY; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTMENOPAUSE; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 8444251719     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2004.07.006     Document Type: Review

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