Prognosis in women with breast cancer and private extra insurance coverage

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2822-2827

  Grau, Juan J ^a   Zanon, Gabriel ^a   Caso, Carlos ^b   Gonzalez, Xavier ^a   Rodriguez, Araceli ^b   Caballero, Miguel ^a   Biete, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b SagradaFamilia school SAFA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXEMESTANE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84881482127     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-3025-3     Document Type: Article

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