NCCN Guidelines® insights breast cancer, version 1.2017: Featured updates to the NCCN Guidelines

JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 433-451

  Gradishar, William J ^a   Anderson, Benjamin O ^b   Balassanian, Ron ^c   Blair, Sarah L ^d   Burstein, Harold J ^e   Cyr, Amy ^f   Elias, Anthony D ^g   Farrar, William B ^h   Forero, Andres ⁱ   Giordano, Sharon Hermes ^j   Goetz, Matthew P ^k   Goldstein, Lori J ^l   Isakoff, Steven J ^m   Lyons, Janice ⁿ   Kelly Marcom, P ^o   Mayer, Ingrid A ^p   McCormick, Beryl ^q   Moran, Meena S ^r   O'Regan, Ruth M ^r   Patel, Sameer A ^l   Pierce, Lori J ^s   Reed, Elizabeth C ^t   Salerno, Kilian E ^u   Schwartzberg, Lee S ^v   Sitapati, Amy ^d   Smith, Karen Lisa ^w   Smith, Mary Lou ^x   Soliman, Hatem ^y   Somlo, George ^z   Telli, Melinda ^aa   Ward, John H ^ab   Shead, Dorothy A ^ac   Kumar, Rashmi ^ac   more..

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CANCER CARE ALLIANCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e DANA FARBER BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry   (United States)

^h OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^k MAYO CLINIC CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^l FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^m MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^o DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^p VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^q MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^r YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^u ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^v ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^w JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x Media Relations and Special Projects   (United States)

^y H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^z CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^aa STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^ac National Comprehensive Cancer Network   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DENOSUMAB; HORMONE RECEPTOR; NEW DRUG;

ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LUMPECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METASTATIC BREAST CANCER; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSTMENOPAUSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THORAX WALL; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BREAST RADIATION THERAPY; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 85017528550     PISSN: 15401405     EISSN: 15401413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2017.0044     Document Type: Article

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