Socioeconomic position and breast reconstruction in Danish women

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-273

  Hvilsom, Gitte B ^a   Hölmich, Lisbet R ^b   Frederiksen, Kirsten ^a   Steding Jessen, Marianne ^a   Friis, Søren ^a   Dalton, Susanne O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SOCIAL CLASS; TUMOR BURDEN; WOMEN;

EID: 78651478875     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2010.529823     Document Type: Article

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