Racial differences in the outcome of patients with colorectal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 493-498

  Govindarajan, Rangaswamy ^a   Shah, Rajesh V ^a   Erkman, Linda G ^a   Hutchins, Laura F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; Education; Income; Poverty; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0037439492     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11067     Document Type: Article

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