Institutional variation in the surgical treatment of breast cancer: A study of the NCCN

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 339-345

  Greenberg, Caprice C ^a,b   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b   Hughes, Melissa E ^a   Edge, Stephen B ^c   Theriault, Richard ^d   Wilson, John L ^e   Carter, W Bradford ^f   Blayney, Douglas W ^g   Niland, Joyce ^h   Weeks, Jane C ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ETHNICITY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY WITH RECONSTRUCTION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 79961069865     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182263bb0     Document Type: Article

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