Comorbidities in the aging breast cancer population: Are current assessments leading to improved outcomes?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 103, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1072-1073

  McCaskill Stevens, Worta ^a   Abrams, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

AGED; AGING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOCAL THERAPY; LUNG DISEASE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960733764     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djr239     Document Type: Editorial

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