Distance to the closest radiotherapy facility and survival after a diagnosis of rectal cancer in queensland

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 195, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 350-354

  Baade, Peter D ^a   Dasgupta, Paramita ^a   Aitken, Joanne F ^a   Turrell, Gavin ^b  

^a VIERTEL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CANCER CONTROL   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM CANCER; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; CANCER CENTER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; QUEENSLAND; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856367284     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja10.11204     Document Type: Article

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