Effectiveness of radiation for prevention of mastectomy in older breast cancer patients treated with conservative surgery

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4642-4651

  Albert, Jeffrey M ^a   Pan, I Wen ^b   Shih, Ya Chen Tina ^c   Jiang, Jing ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Giordano, Sharon H ^a   Smith, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; comparative effectiveness; elderly; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEER PROGRAM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866510126     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27457     Document Type: Article

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