Black and white patients fare equally well when treated with postlumpectomy radiotherapy

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 961-967

  Burri, Stuart H ^a   Landry, Jerome C ^c   Norton, H James ^b   Davis, Lawrence W ^c  

^a SouthEast Radiation Oncology Group   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Black; Breast conservation; Lumpectomy; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 3042623790     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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