Staging of Breast Cancer: New Recommended Standard Procedure
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
- Vol. 72 (1), 53-60
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1014900600815
Abstract
Background. Staging procedures used to detect metastatic breast cancer at the time of diagnosis are bone scan (BS), chest X-ray (CXR), liver ultrasonography (LUS) and laboratory parameters (LP)....Keywords
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