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Objectives
To compare the effectiveness of chemotherapy in prolonging survival according to age in breast and colon cancer.
Design
Retrospective cohort study with a matched cohort analysis based on the conditional probability of receiving chemotherapy.
Setting
The 16 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) areas from the SEER‐Medicare linked database.
Participants
Women diagnosed...
Breast cancer poses a huge medical burden to the U.S. health-care system, and chemotherapy is an important contributor to cancer costs. This article examines the differences between breast cancer patients who received chemotherapy and those who did not in costs and survival by age, treatment, and axillary node status. We studied a cohort of 23,110 node-positive and 31,572 node-negative women aged...
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