Increasing rates of surgical treatment and preventing comorbidities may increase breast cancer survival for Aboriginal women

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Supramaniam, Rajah ^a   Gibberd, Alison ^b   Dillon, Anthony ^c   Goldsbury, David E ^a   O'Connell, Dianne L ^a,b,d,e  

^a CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia epidemiology; Breast Neoplasms epidemiology; Female health services; Indigenous; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; LOCAL EXCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; SOCIOECONOMICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; REGISTER; RISK; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897574669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-163     Document Type: Article

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