Impact of Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee on breast cancer stage at diagnosis and treatment

Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 17, 2017, Pages 3312-3319

  Tarazi, Wafa W ^a   Bradley, Cathy J ^b   Bear, Harry D ^c   Harless, David W ^a   Sabik, Lindsay M ^d  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; diagnosis; expansion; Medicaid; termination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGHEST INCOME GROUP; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TENNESSEE; TUMOR INVASION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85021320758     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.30771     Document Type: Article

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