Trends in racial and age disparities in definitive local therapy of early-stage breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 713-719

  Freedman, Rachel A ^a   He, Yulei ^a   Winer, Eric P ^a   Keating, Nancy L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOCAL THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 59949093293     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.17.9234     Document Type: Article

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