July 6, 2010Open Access

Is Breast Cancer the Same Disease in Asian and Western Countries?

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Abstract

Future prospective data collection from Asian and Western countries may provide further interesting epidemiologic and outcome data regarding the outcome of women with breast cancer from Asian and Western countries.

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Leong et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69de72297ed287395e558d6c https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-010-0683-1

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