RT Book, Section
A1 Karuturi, Meghan
A1 Valero, Vicente
A1 Chavez-MacGregor, Mariana
A2 Kantarjian, Hagop M.
A2 Wolff, Robert A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126743163
T1 Metastatic Breast Cancer
T2 The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847940
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126743163
RD 2024/04/24
AB Breast  cancer  is  a  significant  cause  of  morbidity  and  mortality  among  women.  In  the  United  States,  it  is  the  most  common  malignancy  among  women.  It  is  estimated  that  approximately  231,840  new  cases  of  invasive  breast  cancer  will  have  occurred  in  the  United  States  in  2015  (1,2).  Although  lung  cancer  has  surpassed  breast  cancer  as  the  leading  cause  of  cancer  death  among  women,  nearly  39,620  deaths  were  estimated  to  occur  from  breast  cancer  alone  in  2013  (1).