Breast cancer: Do specialists make a difference?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 606-615

  Skinner, Kristin A ^a,b   Helsper, James T ^a   Deapen, Dennis ^a   Ye, Wei ^a   Sposto, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Year survival; Breast cancer; Hospital volume; Specialists; Surgeon case volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RACE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CENTER; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141941539     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2003.06.017     Document Type: Review

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