Radiotherapy effects on early breast cancer survival in observational and randomized studies: a systematic analysis of advantages, disadvantages and differences between the two study types

Breast Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 415-424

  König, Jochem ^a   van Ewijk, Reyn ^a   Kuhr, Kathrin ^b   Schmidberger, Heinz ^a   Wöckel, Achim ^c   Kreienberg, Rolf ^d   Blettner, Maria ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Observational studies; Radiotherapy; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84921327870     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-014-0579-2     Document Type: Article

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