Breast cancer trends among black and white women in the United States

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 31, 2005, Pages 7836-7841

  Jatoi, Ismail ^a   Anderson, William F ^b   Rao, Sowmya R ^b   Devesa, Susan S ^b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 32944473882     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.01.0421     Document Type: Article

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