Population-density and county-level variation in breast cancer mortality rates among white women residing in the Northeastern and Southern United States

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 923-931

  Sturgeon, Susan R ^a   Graubard, Barry I ^b   Schairer, Catherine ^b   McAdams, Mary ^c   Hoover, Robert N ^b   Gail, Mitchell H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mortality; United States

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0347756654     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CACO.0000007963.56703.9d     Document Type: Article

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