Do all patients with carcinoma of the esophagus benefit from treatment at teaching facilities?

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
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