Impact of ethnicity on outcome in pancreatic carcinoma

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 246-254

  Saif, Muhammad Wasif ^a   Sviglin, Helena ^a   Carpenter, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africans Americans; Ethnic groups; European continental ancestry group; Pancreatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23644461996     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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