Statistical methods for analysis of radiation effects with tumor and dose location-specific information with application to the wecare study of asynchronous contralateral breast cancer

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 599-608

  Langholz, Bryan ^a   Thomas, Duncan C ^a   Stovall, Marilyn ^b   Smith, Susan A ^b   Boice, John D ^c   Shore, Roy E ^d   Bernstein, Leslie ^e   Lynch, Charles F ^f   Zhang, Xinbo ^a   Bernstein, Jonine L ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^e CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Conditional likelihood; Counter matching; Counting processes; Measurement error; Multivariate survival data; Partial likelihood; Radiation epidemiology

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CONDITIONAL LIKELIHOOD; CONTRALATERAL BREAST; COUNTER-MATCHING; COUNTING PROCESS; MATCHINGS; MULTIVARIATE SURVIVAL DATA; PARTIAL LIKELIHOODS; RADIATION EPIDEMIOLOGY; SURVIVAL DATA;

DISEASES;

CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66949117323     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01096.x     Document Type: Article

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