Population- and community-based recruitment of African Americans and Latinos: The San Francisco Bay Area lung cancer study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 272-279

  Cabral, Daramöla N ^a   Nápoles Springer, Anna M ^b   Miike, Rei ^b   McMillan, Alex ^c   Sison, Jennette D ^b   Wrensch, Margaret R ^b   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^b   Wiencke, John K ^b  

^a NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Epidemiologic methods; Ethnic groups; Investigative techniques

Indexed keywords

CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC MINORITY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STATISTICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PATIENT SELECTION; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO; SMOKING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042127110     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg138     Document Type: Article

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