Cancer-directed surgery for localized disease: Decreased use in the elderly

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 962-969

  O'Connell, Jessica B ^a   Maggard, Melinda A ^b   Ko, Clifford Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer registry; Elderly; Quality; SEER; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SARCOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; AGE; CANCER REGISTRY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEER PROGRAM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16644368895     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2004.03.052     Document Type: Article

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