Racial differences in survival of female breast cancer in the Detroit metropolitan area

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 308-314

  Simon, Michael S ^a,b   Severson, Richard K ^a  

^a KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast neoplasms; epidemiology; mortality; relative risk; sociodemographic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDICAID; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030059963     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960115)77:2<308::AID-CNCR13>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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