Age disparity in palliative radiation therapy among patients with advanced cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 224-230

  Wong, Jonathan ^a   Xu, Beibei ^b,c   Yeung, Heidi N ^c,d   Roeland, Eric J ^c,d   Martinez, Maria Elena ^c,d   Le, Quynh Thu ^e   Mell, Loren K ^b,c   Murphy, James D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH INSURANCE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES; CANCER PATIENTS; COLORECTAL CANCER; METHODS AND MATERIALS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE RADIATIONS; PATIENT PREFERENCES; POISSON REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905822087     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.03.050     Document Type: Article

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