Incidence of esophageal and gastric carcinomas among American Asians/Pacific Islanders, whites, and blacks: Subsite and histology differences

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 683-692

  Wu, Xiaocheng ^a   Chen, Vivien W ^a   Ruiz, Bernado ^b   Andrews, Patricia ^a   Su, L Joseph ^a   Correa, Pelayo ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; American Asians Pacific Islanders; Blacks; Esophagus; Gastric cardia; Gastric noncardia; Squamous cell carcinoma; Whites

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARDIA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PACIFIC ISLANDS; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31544451048     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21542     Document Type: Article

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