Race/ethnicity and changing US socioeconomic gradients in breast cancer incidence: California and Massachusetts, 1978-2002 (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 217-226

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Rehkopf, David H ^a   Yin, Ruihua ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer incidence; Epidemiology; Race ethnicity; Socioeconomic position; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASSACHUSETTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 31044437652     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-005-0408-1     Document Type: Article

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