Bilateral breast cancers in an Asian population, and a comparison between synchronous and metachronous tumours.
Yirong R SimVeronique K M TanNur A B SidekDaryl K A ChiaBenita K T TanPreetha MadhukumarWei Sean YongChow Yin WongKong Wee OngPublished in: ANZ journal of surgery (2018)
Our study shows that Asian women with BBC have different characteristics to their Western counterparts. In particular, women with sBBC tended to have a lower 5-year overall survival compared to those with mBBC, despite having seemingly biologically favourable tumours, which suggest that there may be more underlying their tumour biology and genetics.
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