Socioeconomic factors associated with adjuvant hormone therapy use in older breast cancer survivors

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 398-405

  Yen, Tina W F ^a   Czypinski, Linda K ^a   Sparapani, Rodney A ^a   Guo, Changbin ^a   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Pezzin, Liliana E ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

aromatase inhibitors; breast cancer; hormone therapy; surgery; tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; EXEMESTANE; LETROZOLE; TAMOXIFEN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 78650995463     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25412     Document Type: Article

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