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- Title
The influence of menstrual cycle phase on surgical treatment of primary breast cancer: have we made any progress over the past 13 years?
- Authors
Hortobagyi, Gabriel N.
- Abstract
Examines the influence of menstrual cycle phase on surgical treatment of primary breast cancer. Survival rate of patients operated on during the perimenstrual period; Assessment of the efficacy of breast cancer surgery in relation to the timing of the intervention during the menstrual cycle; Significance of the timing of the endoctrine intervention.
- Subjects
MENSTRUAL cycle; BREAST cancer treatment; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents; TAMOXIFEN; BREAST tumors; COMBINED modality therapy; LUTEAL phase; MASTECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; HORMONE-dependent tumors
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2002, Vol 94, Issue 9, p641
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
commentary
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/94.9.641