Comorbid Diseases Interact with Breast Cancer to Affect Mortality in the First Year after Diagnosis-A Danish Nationwide Matched Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ording, Anne Gulbech ^a   Garne, Jens Peter ^b   Nyström, Petra Mariann Witt ^c   Frøslev, Trine ^a   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a   Lash, Timothy L ^a,d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANISH; DEMENTIA; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; ULCER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84885098505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076013     Document Type: Article

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