Care of long-term cancer survivors: Physicians seen by medicare enrollees surviving longer than 5 years

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5284-5295

  Pollack, Lori A ^a   Adamache, Walter ^b   Blythe Ryerson, A ^a   Eheman, Christie R ^a   Richardson, Lisa C ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Breast neoplasms; Colorectal neoplasms; End results program; Epidemiology; Medical utilization; Medicare; Prostatic neoplasms; Specialties; Surveillance; Survivors; Urinary bladder neoplasms; Uterine neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MEDICARE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449432736     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24624     Document Type: Article

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