Does stage at diagnosis influence the observed relationship between socioeconomic status and breast cancer incidence, case-fatality, and mortality?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2265-2279

  Yabroff, K Robin ^a,b   Gordis, Leon ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Case fatality; Incidence; Mortality; Socioeconomic factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142248897     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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