Esophageal Cancer Treatment Is Underutilized Among Elderly Patients in the USA

Keyphrases

• 5-year Survival 33%
• Advanced Esophageal Cancer 33%
• Cancer Patients 33%
• Combined Modality Therapy 33%
• Comorbidity 33%
• Confidence Interval 33%
• Cox Proportional Hazards Model 33%
• Definitive Chemoradiation 33%
• Elderly Patients 100%
• Esophageal Cancer 100%
• Esophageal Cancer Surgery 100%
• Geographic Region 33%
• Kaplan-Meier Method 33%
• Linked Database 33%
• Logistic Regression Analysis 33%
• Medical Therapy 33%
• Medicare 33%
• Overall Survival 100%
• Regional Factors 33%
• Socioeconomic Factors 33%
• Surgical Therapy 33%
• Surveillance Epidemiology 33%
• Underutilization 100%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Cancer Therapy 100%
• Chemoradiotherapy 20%
• Combination Therapy 20%
• Elderly Patient 100%
• Esophageal Cancer 100%
• Kaplan Meier Method 20%
• Logistic Regression Analysis 20%
• Medicare 20%
• Overall Survival 60%
• Proportional Hazards Model 20%
• Surgery 20%
• Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 20%

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science

• Chemoradiation Therapy 20%
• Comorbidity 20%
• Esophagus Cancer 100%
• Overall Survival 60%