How breast cancer treatment decisions are made by women in North Dakota

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 515-519

  Stafford, Douglas ^a   Szczys, Robert ^a,b   Becker, Ricky ^a   Anderson, Julie ^a   Bushfield, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NORTH DAKOTA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0032426844     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00257-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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