Discrepancy between Consensus Recommendations and Actual Community Use of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Women with Breast Cancer
- 21 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 138 (2) , 90
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-138-2-200301210-00009
Abstract
Actual use of chemotherapy for breast cancer differs markedly from consensus recommendations, and the gap between ideal and actual care widens for older women. Decreased use with age may reflect kn... Background: Although the efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in prolonging survival for women with breast cancer has been well documented, limited population-based information is available on the act...Keywords
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