Reports on the prognosis of familial breast cancer patients have been contradictory. True differences in survival, if they exist, would have important implications for genetic counselling and in treatment of hereditary breast cancer. We assessed the survival rates of 359 familial breast cancer patie
Survival in familial breast cancer patients
β Scribed by David E. Anderson; Michael D. Badzioch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 594 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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