Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Outcomes for Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast Cancers: Experience of an Academic Center with a Charity Hospital

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 210, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 585-592

  Chu, Quyen D ^a,b   Burton, Gary ^a,b   Glass, Jonathan ^a,b   Smith, Mark H ^a   Li, Benjamin D L ^a,b  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DOXORUBICIN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TRASTUZUMAB; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAID; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TUMOR VOLUME; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77952313077     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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