Does Survival Vary for Breast Cancer Patients in the United States? A Study from Six Randomly Selected States
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Does Survival Vary for Breast Cancer Patients in the United States? A Study from Six Randomly Selected States
BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Disparities in some characteristics of breast cancer patients and their survival data for six randomly selected states in the US were examined. MATERIALS AND METHODS A probability random sampling method was used to select the records of 2,000 patients from each of six randomly selected states. Demographic and disease characteristics...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Environmental and Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1687-9805,1687-9813
DOI: 10.1155/2017/6950579