TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Metastatic Breast Cancer A1 - Karuturi, Meghan A1 - Valero, Vicente A1 - Chavez-MacGregor, Mariana A2 - Kantarjian, Hagop M. A2 - Wolff, Robert A. PY - 2016 T2 - The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, 3e AB - Breast cancer is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among women. In the United States, it is the most common malignancy among women. It is estimated that approximately 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer will have occurred in the United States in 2015 (1,2). Although lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death among women, nearly 39,620 deaths were estimated to occur from breast cancer alone in 2013 (1). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126743163 ER -