Meta-analysis of survival in African American and white American patients with breast cancer: Ethnicity compared with socioeconomic status

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1342-1349

  Newman, Lisa A ^a   Griffith, Kent A ^a   Jatoi, Ismail ^a   Simon, Michael S ^a   Crowe, Joseph P ^a   Colditz, Graham A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; META ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645453872     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.3472     Document Type: Article

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