Trends in local therapy utilization and cost for early-stage breast cancer in older women: Implications for payment and policy reform

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 605-616

  Shirvani, Shervin M ^a,b   Jiang, Jing ^a   Likhacheva, Anna ^a,b   Hoffman, Karen E ^a   Shaitelman, Simona F ^a   Caudle, Abigail ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Giordano, Sharon H ^a   Smith, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATING; COSTS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH INSURANCE; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

AGGREGATE COSTS; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; END RESULTS MEDICARES; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; METHODS AND MATERIALS; PATTERNS OF CARE; POLICY REFORMS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; EARLY CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LOCAL THERAPY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; TREND STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER REGISTRY; ECONOMICS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962234324     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.01.059     Document Type: Article

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