Surgery improves breast cancer-specific survival in octogenarians with early-stage breast cancer

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 554-557

  Cortadellas, Tomás ^a   Gascón, Andrea ^a   Córdoba, Octavi ^a   Rabasa, Jordi ^a   Rodríguez, Robert ^a   Espinosa Bravo, Martin ^a   Esgueva, Antonio ^a   Rubio, Isabel T ^a   Xercavins, Jordi ^a   Gil, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast cancer specific survival; Octogenarian patients; Primary endocrine therapy; Standard surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; OCTOGENARIAN PATIENTS; PRIMARY ENDOCRINE THERAPY; STANDARD SURGICAL TREATMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880330652     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2013.05.032     Document Type: Article

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