Barriers to adequate follow-up during adjuvant therapy may be important factors in the worse outcome for Black women after breast cancer treatment

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kim, Steve H ^a   Ferrante, Jeanne ^b   Won, Bok Ran ^b   Hameed, Meera ^b  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; NEGRO; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; URBAN AREA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST TUMOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41749105084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-6-26     Document Type: Article

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