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Jean L. Freeman
Researcher at University of Texas Medical Branch
Publications - 50
Citations - 4376
Jean L. Freeman is an academic researcher from University of Texas Medical Branch. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 50 publications receiving 4105 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean L. Freeman include National Institutes of Health & University of Minnesota.
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Risk of Cardiac Death After Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer
Sharon H. Giordano,Yong Fang Kuo,Jean L. Freeman,Thomas A. Buchholz,Gabriel N. Hortobagyi,James S. Goodwin +5 more
TL;DR: Risks of death from ischemic heart disease associated with radiation for breast cancer has substantially decreased over time, and there was no differences in age, race/ethnicity, disease stage, or follow-up time between women diagnosed with left-sided and right-sided cancer.
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Utility of the SEER-Medicare data to identify chemotherapy use.
Joan L. Warren,Linda C. Harlan,Angela Fahey,Beth A Virnig,Jean L. Freeman,Carrie N. Klabunde,Gregory S. Cooper,Kevin B. Knopf +7 more
TL;DR: The utility of Medicare data to measure treatment with specific agents varies by cancer type and specific agent, and high level of agreement between Medicare claims and POC data regarding whether or not the patient had received chemotherapy is found.
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Increasing use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists for the treatment of localized prostate carcinoma
TL;DR: The authors examined the time trends and patterns of use for androgen deprivation in the form of gonadotropin‐releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists or orchiectomy, in population‐based tumor registries.
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Studying Radiation Therapy Using SEER-Medicare-Linked Data
Beth A Virnig,Joan L. Warren,Gregory S. Cooper,Carrie N. Klabunde,Nicola Schussler,Jean L. Freeman +5 more
TL;DR: There is a high level of agreement between SEER and Medicare reporting of radiation treatments after a cancer diagnosis, suggesting that either source can be used to assess radiation-related treatment patterns.
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Use of SEER-Medicare data for measuring cancer surgery.
Gregory S. Cooper,Beth A Virnig,Carrie N. Klabunde,Nicola Schussler,Jean L. Freeman,Joan L. Warren +5 more
TL;DR: The agreement of SEER and Medicare data appears to be good for major surgical procedures and for excluding persons who did not undergo cancer-directed surgery.