Out-of-pocket costs for accessing adjuvant radiotherapy among Canadian women with breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 4007-4013

  Lauzier, Sophie ^b,c   Levesque, Pascale ^b,c   Drolet, Mélanie ^b,c   Coyle, Douglas ^a   Brisson, Jacques ^b,c   Mâsse, Benoît ^e,f   Robidoux, André ^d   Robert, Jean ^b   Maunsell, Elizabeth ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUEBEC; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054718843     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.35.1007     Document Type: Article

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