Bone metastases in breast cancer: Frequency, metastatic pattern and non-systemic locoregional therapy

Background: The study evaluates the frequency of and indications for bone-metastases (BM)-related surgery and/or radiotherapy in the palliative breast cancer (BC) situation and analyzes in which phase of the palliative disease course surgery and/or radiotherapy was applied. Methods: 340 patients who...

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Main Authors: Kirsten Steinauer, Dorothy Jane Huang, Serenella Eppenberger-Castori, Esther Amann, Uwe Güth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-05-01
Series:Journal of Bone Oncology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212137414000189