Out-of-pocket costs and burden among rural breast cancer survivors

Cancer Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 572-581

  Pisu, Maria ^a,b   Azuero, Andres ^b   Benz, Rachel ^b   McNees, Patrick ^b,c   Meneses, Karen ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Kirchner Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Burden; Cancer; costs; economics; out of pocket costs; rural; survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; OUT OF POCKET COST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; WELLBEING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 85013414527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.1017     Document Type: Article

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