The effect of comorbidity on the use of adjuvant chemotherapy and survival from colon cancer: A retrospective cohort study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sarfati, Diana ^a   Hill, Sarah ^a,b   Blakely, Tony ^a   Robson, Bridget ^a   Purdie, Gordon ^a   Dennett, Elizabeth ^a   Cormack, Donna ^a   Dew, Kevin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON TUMOR; HEART DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 65649129019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-116     Document Type: Article

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