Accuracy of racial classification of Vietnamese patients in a population-based cancer registry

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 218-227

  Swallen, Karen C ^a,b   Glaser, Sally L ^a   Stewart, Susan L ^a   West, Dee W ^a   Jenkins, Christopher N H ^c   McPhee, Stephen J ^c  

^a NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Ethnic Misclassification; Registry Data; Vietnamese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; REGISTER; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALIFORNIA; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; VIETNAM;

EID: 0031609297     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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