Low rate of breast conservation surgery in a large urban hospital serving the medically indigent

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 520-524

  Dolan, Jean T ^a   Granchi, Thomas S ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032431386     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00255-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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