## BACKGROUND. This study investigates whether a positive family history of breast carcinoma is associated with improved survival after invasive breast carcinoma among women ages 21 through 45. METHODS. Subjects were 733 nonadopted women born after 1944 who were diagnosed with primary invasive bre
Young age and outcome for women with early-stage invasive breast carcinoma
β Scribed by Ping Zhou; Abram Recht
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Volume
- 101
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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