Relationship between number of breast cancer operations performed and 5-year survival after treatment for early-stage breast cancer

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 539-544

  Gilligan, Mary Ann ^a   Neuner, Joan ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a   Sparapani, Rodney ^a   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER REGISTRY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; MASTECTOMY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STANDARD; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEER PROGRAM; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847700092     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.075663     Document Type: Article

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