Rural breast cancer treatment: Evidence from the Reaching Communities for Cancer Care (REACH) project

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-66

  Tropman, Sarah E ^a,e   Ricketts, Thomas C ^a   Paskett, Electra ^b   Hatzell, Theresa A ^a   Cooper, M Robert ^b   Aldrich, Timothy ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c North Carolina Ctrl Cancer Registry   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Neoplasm; Recommendations; Rural; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0032831442     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006279117650     Document Type: Article

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