Geographic variations in breach cancer mortality: Do higher rates imply elevated incidence or poorer survival?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 458-460

  Goodwin, James S ^a   Freeman, Jean L ^c   Freeman, Daniel ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Jennie Sealy Hospital 3 East ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER; CAUSES OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CAUSES OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031594403     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.88.3.458     Document Type: Article

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