Causes of death and relative survival of older women after a breast cancer diagnosis

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1570-1577

  Schonberg, Mara A ^a,b   Marcantonio, Edward R ^a,b   Ngo, Long ^a,b   Li, Donglin ^a,b   Silliman, Rebecca A ^a,b   McCarthy, Ellen P ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955000475     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.33.0472     Document Type: Article

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