Treatment of Breast Cancer
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 339 (14) , 974-984
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199810013391407
Abstract
Breast cancer is a major public health problem worldwide. Management of breast cancer was last reviewed in the Journal in 1992.1 The accumulation of new biologic information, the results of recent clinical trials, and the availability of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools make it appropriate to review the subject again.EpidemiologyThe incidence of breast cancer in the United States has been increasing gradually for the past three decades.2,3 It was estimated that 181,600 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the United States in 1997 and that 44,190 people would die of breast cancer during the same . . .Keywords
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