Health insurance and breast-conserving surgery with radiation treatment

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 502-516

  Ali, Askal Ayalew ^a   Xiao, Hong ^a   Kiros, Gebre Egziabher ^a  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POVERTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FLORIDA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84903626434     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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