Social class, race/ethnicity, and incidence of breast, cervix, colon, lung, and prostate cancer among Asian, black, Hispanic, and white residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, 1988-92 (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 525-537

  Krieger, Nancy ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Census data; Poverty; Race ethnicity; Socioeconomic position

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; COLON CANCER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SAN FRANCISCO; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032729895     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008950210967     Document Type: Article

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