Completion of adjuvant radiation therapy among women with breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-29

  Srokowski, Tomasz P ^a   Fang, Shenying ^a   Duan, Zhigang ^b   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^a   Goodwin, James S ^b   Giordano, Sharon H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c Box 1354 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiotherapy completion; Aging; Breast cancer; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 47149116900     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23513     Document Type: Article

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