Pregnancy-associated breast cancer: an entity needing refinement of the definition

Editorial

Virginia F Borges et al. Cancer. 2012.

. 2012 Jul 1;118(13):3226-8.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.26643. Epub 2011 Nov 15.

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Comment on

Current or recent pregnancy is associated with adverse pathologic features but not impaired survival in early breast cancer.
Murphy CG, Mallam D, Stein S, Patil S, Howard J, Sklarin N, Hudis CA, Gemignani ML, Seidman AD. Murphy CG, et al. Cancer. 2012 Jul 1;118(13):3254-9. doi: 10.1002/cncr.26654. Epub 2011 Nov 15. Cancer. 2012. PMID: 22086863

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