Small but significant socioeconomic inequalities in axillary staging and treatment of breast cancer in the Netherlands

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-17

  Aarts, M J ^a   Hamelinck, V C ^b   Bastiaannet, E ^b   Coebergh, J W W ^a,c   Liefers, G J ^b   Voogd, A C ^a,d   Van Der Sangen, M ^e   Louwman, W J ^a  

^a Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; population based; socioeconomic factors; staging; The Netherlands; treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INCOME; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NETHERLANDS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862994719     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.205     Document Type: Article

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