Patterns of care study of breast-conserving therapy in Japan: Comparison of the treatment process between 1995-1997 and 1999-2001 surveys

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 737-743

  Yamauchi, Chikako ^a   Mitsumori, Michihide ^a   Sai, Heitetsu ^a   Imagunbai, Toshiyuki ^a   Negoro, Yoshiharu ^a   Sasaki, Yoshihide ^a   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a   Shikama, Naoto ^a,b   Sasaki, Shigeru ^a,b   Takegawa, Hideki ^a,c   Inoue, Toshihiko ^a,c   Teshima, Teruki ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast conserving therapy; Patterns of care study; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FLUOROURACIL DERIVATIVE; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN; MITOXANTRONE; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASTER CAST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; MITOXANTRONE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PACLITAXEL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TAMOXIFEN; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 36248958164     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hym096     Document Type: Article

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