Ethnicity and conditional breast cancer survival in Hawaii

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1289-1296

  Meng, Lixin ^a   Maskarinec, Gertraud ^a   Lee, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Conditional survival; Ethnicity; Hawaii

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; JAPAN; MARITAL STATUS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILIPPINES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030779227     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00183-2     Document Type: Article

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