Survival disadvantage among Medicaid-insured breast cancer patients treated with breast conserving surgery without radiation therapy

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-214

  Foley, Kristie Long ^a   Kimmick, Gretchen ^b   Camacho, Fabian ^a   Levine, Edward A ^a   Balkrishnan, Rajesh ^c   Anderson, Roger ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast conserving surgery; Low income; Medicaid; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846328685     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9280-2     Document Type: Article

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