Black-white differences in survival from late-stage prostate cancer

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 220-225

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a  

^a Connecticut Dept of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; METASTASIS; NEGRO; POPULATION; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THEORY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL TRIALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037498543     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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