Relationship Between Number of Breast Cancer Operations Performed and 5-Year Survival After Treatment for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Author(s) -
Mary Ann Gilligan,
Joan Neuner,
Xu Zhang,
Rodney Sparapani,
Purushottam W. Laud,
Ann B. Nattinger
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2005.075663
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , hazard ratio , epidemiology , cancer registry , confidence interval , cancer , retrospective cohort study , cohort , cohort study , proportional hazards model , stage (stratigraphy) , oncology , surveillance, epidemiology, and end results , confounding , paleontology , biology
We examined the association between number of breast cancer operations performed in a hospital (hospital volume) and all-cause and breast cancer-specific mortality using a national database and statistical methods appropriate for clustering and reducing confounding.
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