Association between travel distance and metastatic disease at diagnosis among patients with colon cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 942-948

  Massarweh, Nader N ^a   Chiang, Yi Ju ^a   Xing, Yan ^a   Chang, George J ^a   Haynes, Alex B ^a   You, Y Nancy ^a   Feig, Barry W ^a   Cormier, Janice N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COLON TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCOME; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899655119     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.52.3845     Document Type: Article

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