Changes in insurance coverage and stage at diagnosis among nonelderly patients with cancer after the affordable care act

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 35, Issue 35, 2017, Pages 3906-3915

  Jemal, Ahmedin ^a   Lin, Chun Chieh ^a   Davidoff, Amy J ^b   Han, Xuesong ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; EARLY CANCER; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FAMILY INCOME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SMOKING; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; ADOLESCENT; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85038129894     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2017.73.7817     Document Type: Article

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