Variations in treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ in elderly women

Medical Care

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-275

  Gold, Heather Taffet ^a,b   Dick, Andrew W ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion of technology; Ductal carcinoma in situ; Geographic variation; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER REGISTRY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

EID: 2142807404     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000114915.98256.b4     Document Type: Article

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