Skin Cancer in U.S. Elderly Adults: Does Life Expectancy Play a Role in Treatment Decisions?

OBJECTIVES: To examine whether life expectancy influences treatment pattern of nonmelanoma skin cancer, or keratinocyte carcinoma (KC), the most common malignancy and the fifth most costly cancer to Medicare. DESIGN: Nationally representative cross‐sectional study. SETTING: Nationally representative...

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Autores principales: Linos, Eleni, Chren, Mary‐Margaret, Stijacic Cenzer, Irena, Covinsky, Kenneth E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14202

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14202

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