The ongoing search for the sources of the breast cancer survival disparity

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1326-1328

  Dignam, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL;

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 33645453558     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.04.8561     Document Type: Editorial

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