Clinicopathologic profile of breast cancer patients in pakistan: Ten years data of a local cancer hospital

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 693-698

  Khokher, Samina ^a   Qureshi, Muhammad Usman ^b   Riaz, Masooma ^c   Akhtar, Naseem ^c   Saleem, Afaf ^d  

^a INMOL Hospital   (Pakistan)

^b Nauman Associates   (Pakistan)

^c Medical Physics   (Pakistan)

^d CENTRAL PARK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer clinicopathologic profile; Cancer hospital data; Gender dependence; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; COLLOID CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PAKISTAN; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TIME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAKISTAN; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866450881     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.2.693     Document Type: Article

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