Individual, area, and provider characteristics associated with care received for stages I to III breast cancer in a multistate region of Appalachia

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e9-e18

  Kimmick, Gretchen G ^a   Camacho, Fabian ^a   Mackley, Heath B ^a   Kern, Teresa ^a   Yao, Nengliang ^a   Matthews, Stephen A ^a   Fleming, Steven ^a   Lipscomb, Joseph ^a   Liao, Jason ^a   Hwang, Wenke ^a   Anderson, Roger T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TRASTUZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RACE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGEON; UNITED STATES; BREAST TUMOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; KENTUCKY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; PATHOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; PENNSYLVANIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGEONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921369358     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2014.001397     Document Type: Article

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