Inter- and intra-ethnic differences for female breast carcinoma incidence in the continental United States and in the state of Hawaii

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-65

  Fong, Megan ^a,b   Henson, Donald E ^a   Devesa, Susan S ^c   Anderson, William F ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Papa Ola Lokahi   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age frequency distribution; Age specific incidence rates; Breast carcinoma; Histopathology; Hormone receptor expression; Racial diversity

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; ONSET AGE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, DUCTAL, LOBULAR, AND MEDULLARY; ODDS RATIO; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646722427     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-005-9088-5     Document Type: Article

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