Racial variation in breast cancer treatment among Department of Defense beneficiaries

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 812-820

  Enewold, Lindsey ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   McGlynn, Katherine A ^b   Anderson, William F ^b   Shriver, Craig D ^a   Potter, John F ^a,c   Zahm, Shelia H ^b   Zhu, Kangmin ^a,c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MILITARY SERVICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856210997     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26346     Document Type: Article

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