Survival of U.S. black and white patients with squamous cell cancer of the esophagus

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-92

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a,b  

^a Connecticut Dept of Public Health ^*

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Carcinoma; Esophageal; Survival rates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346373777     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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