Treatment of local breast carcinoma in Florida: The role of the distance to radiation therapy facilities

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 201-207

  Voti, Lydia ^a,f   Richardson, Lisa C ^b   Reis, Isildinha M ^a,c   Fleming, Lora E ^a   MacKinnon, Jill ^a   Coebergh, Jan Willem W ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e The Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^f Florida Cancer Data System   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic access to care; Health insurance; Local breast carcinoma; Patterns of care; Race ethnicity; Treatment disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MARITAL STATUS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29744436223     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21557     Document Type: Article

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