Treatment outcome in breast cancer patients with ipsilateral supraclavicular lymph node metastasis at time of diagnosis: A review of the literature

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 207-212

  Grotenhuis, B A ^a   Klem, T M A L ^a   Vrijland, W W ^a  

^a SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; N3c disease; Stage IIIc; Supraclavicular lymph node metastasis; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLAVICLE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874115188     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2012.11.002     Document Type: Review

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