Decentralization of breast cancer surgery in the United States

Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1323-1329

  Neuner, Joan M ^a   Gilligan, Mary Ann ^a   Sparapani, Rodney ^a   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Haggstrom, David ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Medicare; Physician's practice patterns

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERTIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CERTIFICATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POLITICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444305029     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20490     Document Type: Article

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