The adoption of new adjuvant radiation therapy modalities among medicare beneficiaries with breast cancer: Clinical correlates and cost implications

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1186-1192

  Roberts, Kenneth B ^a,b   Soulos, Pamela R ^a,b   Herrin, Jeph ^a,c   Yu, James B ^a,b   Long, Jessica B ^a,b   Dostaler, Edward ^b   Gross, Cary P ^a,b  

^a YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Health Research and Educational Trust   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIATION THERAPIES; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; END RESULTS MEDICARES; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL VARIATIONS;

COSTS; DISEASES; HEALTH INSURANCE; LOGISTICS; ONCOLOGY; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875265228     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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