Minority adult survivors of childhood cancer: A comparison of long-term outcomes, health care utilization, and health-related behaviors from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 27, 2005, Pages 6499-6507

  Castellino, Sharon M ^a   Casillas, Jacqueline ^b   Hudson, Melissa M ^b   Mertens, Ann C ^b   Whitton, John ^b   Brooks, Sandra L ^b   Zeltzer, Lonnie K ^b   Ablin, Arthur ^b   Castleberry, Robert ^b   Hobbie, Wendy ^b   Kaste, Sue ^b   Robison, Leslie L ^b   Oeffinger, Kevin C ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SECOND CANCER; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NEOPLASM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27244453867     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.11.098     Document Type: Article

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