An unmet need: Tailoring extended adjuvant endocrine therapy

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2951-2953

  Bianchini, G ^a   Gianni, L ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HOX B13 PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 17 RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; DECISION MAKING; DISTANT METASTASIS; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LOW RISK POPULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 84890425566     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.707     Document Type: Editorial

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