Mammography use helps to explain differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis between older black and white women

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 729-736

  McCarthy, Ellen P ^a   Burns, Risa B ^a   Coughlin, Steven S ^b   Freund, Karen M ^c   Rice, Janet ^d   Marwill, Sandra L ^e   Ash, Arlene ^c   Shwartz, Michael ^f   Moskowitz, Mark A ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e One Gillette Park   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032079708     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-128-9-199805010-00005     Document Type: Article

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