Racial/ethnic differences in receipt of timely adjuvant therapy for older women with breast cancer: Are delays influenced by the hospitals where patients obtain surgical care?

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1669-1683

  Freedman, Rachel A ^a   He, Yulei ^a   Winer, Eric P ^b   Keating, Nancy L ^a,c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; delays; disparities

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; TRASTUZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAUCASIAN; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; THERAPY DELAY;

BREAST CANCER; DELAYS; DISPARITIES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884906680     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12063     Document Type: Article

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