Ethnic differences in survival after breast cancer in South East Asia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Bhoo Pathy, Nirmala ^a,b   Hartman, Mikael ^c,d   Yip, Cheng Har ^e   Saxena, Nakul ^c   Taib, Nur Aishah ^e   Lim, Siew Eng ^f   Iau, Philip ^d   Adami, Hans Olov ^g,h   Bulgiba, Awang M ^e   Lee, Soo Chin ^f   Verkooijen, Helena M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INDIAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME; BREAST TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857422423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030995     Document Type: Article

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