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Geographic Variation in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer in Connecticut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Anthony P. Polednak
Anthony P. Polednak
Affiliation:
Connecticut Department of Health Services
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Abstract

In Connecticut there was considerable variation by town of residence in the proportions of patients diagnosed in 1985–1988 receiving transurethral resection only, prostatectomy, and irradiation (without surgery) for local-stage prostate cancer and receiving endocrine surgery for late-stage prostate cancer. Age and socioeconomic variables were examined as predictors of this variation.

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General Essays
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , Spring 1993 , pp. 304 - 310
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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