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- Title
Determinants of cancer stage. A population-based study of elderly New Mexicans.
- Authors
Samet, Jonathan M.; Hunt, William C.; Goodwin, James S.; Samet, J M; Hunt, W C; Goodwin, J S
- Abstract
To assess the role of delay and other factors in determining stage of cancer at diagnosis, the authors interviewed a population-based sample of 800 elderly persons with newly diagnosed cancer at selected sites. Lengthening delay interval was associated with a declining proportion of local stage cases for breast cancer but not other sites. Of the other determinants of stage examined, older age, having a family physician, receiving medical checkups, having greater knowledge of cancer, and having no functional loss were most strongly predictive of local stage. For breast cancer, performance of breast self-examination also predicted local stage.
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 1990, Vol 66, Issue 6, p1302
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-0142(19900915)66:6<1302::AID-CNCR2820660634>3.0.CO;2-3