Patterns of care with regard to surgical choice and application of adjuvant radiation therapy for preinvasive and early stage breast cancer in rural appalachia

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 358-363

  Freeman, Andrew B ^a   Huang, Bin ^b   Dragun, Anthony E ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachia; breast cancer; disparities; radiation; rural; surgical choice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84864349211     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e3182118d27     Document Type: Article

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