Can obesity explain the racial difference in stage of breast cancer at diagnosis between black and white women?

Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 527-536

  Cui, Yadong ^a   Whiteman, Maura K ^a   Langenberg, Patricia ^a   Sexton, Mary ^a   Tkaczuk, Katherine H ^a   Flaws, Jodi A ^a   Bush, Trudy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEGRO; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICS; CANCER SCREENING; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; BLACKS; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; WHITES; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036629460     PISSN: 15246094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152460902760277886     Document Type: Article

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