Breast cancer in Ghanaian women: What has changed?

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-102

  Edmund, Der Muonir ^a   Naaeder, Simon B ^a   Tettey, Yao ^a   Gyasi, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Ghana; Phyllodes tumor; Primary tumor size

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; FEMALE; GHANA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREND STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST CANCER; GHANA; PHYLLODES TUMOR; PRIMARY TUMOR SIZE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYLLODES TUMOR; SARCOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879435348     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPW7TZLS3BFFIU     Document Type: Article

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