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Association Between Treatment With Brachytherapy vs Whole-Breast Irradiation and Subsequent Mastectomy, Complications, and Survival Among Older Women With Invasive Breast Cancer

Grace L. Smith, Ying Xu, Thomas A. Buchholz, Sharon H. Giordano, Jing Jiang, Ya‐Chen Tina Shih, Benjamin D. Smith

JAMA · 2012 · 194 citations · 29 references

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Abstract

In a cohort of older women with breast cancer, treatment with brachytherapy compared with WBI was associated worse with long-term breast preservation and increased complications but no difference in survival.

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Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized control group

Ralph B. D’Agostino · Statistics in Medicine · 1998 · 5.3K citations

A Class of $K$-Sample Tests for Comparing the Cumulative Incidence of a Competing Risk

The Annals of Statistics · 1988 · 4.9K citations · Full text

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Randomized, Controlled Trials, Observational Studies, and the Hierarchy of Research Designs

John Concato, Nirav R. Shah, Ralph I. Horwitz · New England Journal of Medicine · 2000 · 3.5K citations · Full text

Power and sample size calculations

William D. Dupont, W. Dale Plummer · Controlled Clinical Trials · 1990 · 2.1K citations

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Development of a comorbidity index using physician claims data

Carrie N. Klabunde, Arnold L. Potosky, Julie Legler et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · 2000 · 1.8K citations

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