Patterns of utilization of adjuvant radiotherapy and outcomes in black women after breast conservation at a large multidisciplinary cancer center

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1102-1108

  Edwards Bennett, Sophia M ^a   Jacks, Lindsay M ^a   McCormick, Beryl ^a   Zhang, Zhigang ^a   Azu, Michelle ^a   Ho, Alice ^a   Powell, Simon ^a   Brown, Carol ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; Breast cancer; Breast conservation; Radiotherapy; RT

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; BLACK WOMEN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVATION; BREAST CONSERVATION SURGERY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; LOCAL CONTROL; LOCOREGIONAL CONTROL; OVERALL SURVIVAL RATES; RECURRENCE-FREE SURVIVAL; RT;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY;

DISEASES;

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW YORK CITY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959370665     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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