Sociodemographic disparities in access to ovarian cancer treatment
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Sociodemographic disparities in advanced ovarian cancer survival and adherence to treatment guidelines.
OBJECTIVE To estimate whether race or ethnic and socioeconomic strata are independently associated with advanced-stage ovarian cancer-specific survival after adjusting for adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network treatment guidelines. METHODS The design was a retrospective population-based cohort study of patients with stage IIIC-IV epithelial ovarian cancer identified from the Surv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Cancer Epidemiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2616-4213
DOI: 10.21037/ace.2019.10.02