Stage at breast cancer diagnosis and distance from diagnostic hospital in a periurban setting: A South African public hospital case series of over 1,000 women

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2173-2182

  Dickens, Caroline ^a,b   Joffe, Maureen ^b   Jacobson, Judith ^c   Venter, Francois ^d   Schüz, Joachim ^a   Cubasch, Herbert ^b,e   McCormack, Valerie ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit Faculty of Health Sciences University of Witwatersrand ^*  (United States)

^d Information Management Direct Gauteng Provincial Department of Health Bank of Lisbon   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

breast neoplasms; disparities; early diagnosis; geographical; South Africa; stage at diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CASE STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN AREA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISPARITIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL; SOUTH AFRICA; STAGE AT DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRAVEL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84906233207     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28861     Document Type: Article

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