The impact of age, marital status, and physician-patient interactions on the care of older women with breast carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1326-1334

  Silliman, Rebecca A ^a   Troyan, Susan L ^b   Guadagnoli, Edward ^c   Kaplan, Sherrie H ^d   Greenfield, Sheldon ^d  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0030987625     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19971001)80:7<1326::AID-CNCR20>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Review

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