Disaggregating the effects of race on breast cancer survival

Family Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 228-235

  Howard, Daniel L ^a   Penchansky, Roy ^b   Brown, Morton B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Univ of N Carolina at Chapel Hill ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AFTERCARE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031896174     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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