Effect of Travel Distance and Time to Radiotherapy on Likelihood of Receiving Mastectomy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1095-1101

  Goyal, Sharad ^a,b   Chandwani, Sheenu ^b,c,d   Haffty, Bruce G ^a,b   Demissie, Kitaw ^b,c,d  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; TIME TO TREATMENT; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MASTECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925539726     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-4093-8     Document Type: Article

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