Racial Differences in Surgically Staged Patients with Endometrial Cancer

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 134-140

  Hicks, Michael L ^a   Kim, WooShin ^b   Abrams, Judith ^b   Johnson, Christine C ^b   Blount, Angela C ^b   Parham, Groesbeck P ^b  

^a Division of Hematology and Oncology   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; Endometrial cancer; Gynecologic oncology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031066668     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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