Open AccessUse of Radiation Therapy in the Last 30 Days of Life Among a Large Population-Based Cohort of Elderly Patients in the United States
Author(s) -
B. Ashleigh Guadagnolo,
Kai-Ping Liao,
Linda S. Elting,
Sharon H. Giordano,
Thomas A. Buchholz,
YaChen Tina Shih
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of clinical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.482
H-Index - 548
eISSN - 1527-7755
pISSN - 0732-183X
DOI - 10.1200/jco.2012.45.0585
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , cohort , population , epidemiology , prostate cancer , receipt , radiation therapy , cancer , emergency medicine , environmental health , world wide web , computer science
Our goal was to evaluate use and associated costs of radiation therapy (RT) in the last month of life among those dying of cancer.
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