Autor: |
Margaret M. Byrne, Jill MacKinnon, Leonidas G. Koniaris, Michael C. Cheung, Ying Zhuge, Dido Franceschi, Relin Yang |
Rok vydání: |
2010 |
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Zdroj: |
Journal of Surgical Oncology. 102:18-26 |
ISSN: |
0022-4790 |
Popis: |
Background We sought to determine whether patients with esophageal carcinoma benefit from regionalization of care. Methods The Florida Cancer Data System (FCDS) and the Agency for Health Care Administration data sets (1998–2002) were merged and queried. Results A total of 5,041 patients (87.6% Caucasian vs. 11.1% African American (AA)) demonstrated a median survival time of 9.8 months overall and 23.4 months following surgical resection (P |
Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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