Cancer of the uterine corpus among Hispanic women living in the United States: Patterns of staging, diagnosis, and primary treatment

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 753-759

  Díaz Montes, Teresa P ^a   Alberg, Anthony ^b   Zahurak, Mariana L ^c   Trimble, Edward L ^a   Bristow, Robert E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

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

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanics; Malignant; Neoplasm; SEER; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 13844271264     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2004.11.013     Document Type: Article

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