Health system correlates of receipt of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery: A study of low-income medicaid-enrolled women

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 644-652

  Anderson, Roger T ^a   Kimmick, Gretchen G ^b   Camacho, Fabian ^a   Whitmire, J Timothy ^c   Dickinson, Carol ^c   Levine, Edward A ^d   Torti, Frank M ^d   Balkrishnan, Rajesh ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; POVERTY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53649085736     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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