Predicting late-stage breast cancer diagnosis and receipt of adjuvant therapy applying current spatial access to care methods in appalachia

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 980-988

  Donohoe, Joseph ^a   Marshall, Vince ^b   Tan, Xi ^a   Camacho, Fabian T ^c   Anderson, Roger ^c   Balkrishnan, Rajesh ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2SFCA method; Adjuvant therapy; Appalachia; Breast cancer; Spatial access

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; KENTUCKY; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; PENNSYLVANIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; PENNSYLVANIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84944351092     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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