A matched-pair analysis on survival and response rates between German and non-German cancer patients treated at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

Abstract Background Research shows disparities in cancer outcomes by ethnicity or socio-economic status. Therefore, it is the aim of our study to perform a matched-pair analysis which compares the outcome of German and non-German (in the following described as ‘foreign’) cancer patients being treate...

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Main Authors: Marie K. Budde, Walther Kuhn, Mignon-Denise Keyver-Paik, Friedrich Bootz, Jörg C. Kalff, Stefan C. Müller, Thomas Bieber, Peter Brossart, Hartmut Vatter, Ulrich Herrlinger, Dieter C. Wirtz, Hans H. Schild, Glen Kristiansen, Thorsten Pietsch, Stefan Aretz, Franziska Geiser, Lukas Radbruch, Rudolf H. Reich, Christian P. Strassburg, Dirk Skowasch, Markus Essler, Nicole Ernstmann, Jennifer Landsberg, Benjamin Funke, Ingo G. H. Schmidt-Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-6241-9