Predicting survival of de novo metastatic breast cancer in Asian women: systematic review and validation study.

BACKGROUND: In Asia, up to 25% of breast cancer patients present with distant metastases at diagnosis. Given the heterogeneous survival probabilities of de novo metastatic breast cancer, individual outcome prediction is challenging. The aim of the study is to identify existing prognostic models for...

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Main Authors: Hui Miao, Mikael Hartman, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Soo-Chin Lee, Nur Aishah Taib, Ern-Yu Tan, Patrick Chan, Karel G M Moons, Hoong-Seam Wong, Jeremy Goh, Siti Mastura Rahim, Cheng-Har Yip, Helena M Verkooijen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3973579?pdf=render