Regional patterns and trends in cancer mortality among American Indians and Alaska Natives, 1990-2001

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1045-1053

  Espey, David ^a,b   Paisano, Roberta ^b   Cobb, Nathaniel ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Native; American Indian; Cancer; Cancer surveillance; Native American

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; ESKIMO; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; CENSUSES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13944270254     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20876     Document Type: Article

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