Survival from breast cancer among South Asian and non-South Asian women resident in South East England

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 508-512

  Dos Santos Silva, I ^a   Mangtani, P ^a   De Stavola, B L ^a   Bell, J ^b   Quinn, M ^c   Mayer, D ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Thames Cancer Registry   (United Kingdom)

^c OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Ethnicity; Migrants; South Asians; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; SURVIVAL RATE; ASIA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042477572     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601097     Document Type: Article

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