Are physicians choosing wisely when imaging for distant metastases in women with operable breast cancer?

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 62-68

  Simos, Demetrios ^a,b   Hutton, Brian ^a   Clemons, Mark ^a  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Stronach Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISSECTION; DISTANT METASTASIS; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ONTARIO; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 84921340506     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2014.000125     Document Type: Article

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