Radiation treatments after breast-conserving therapy for elderly patients

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 2367-2368

  Smith, Benjamin D ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; TUMOR MARKER;

AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MONOTHERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; RISK REDUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TAMOXIFEN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84883106837     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.48.0939     Document Type: Editorial

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