Ethnic disparities in breast cancer management among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 977-984

  Gelber, Rebecca P ^a,b   McCarthy, Ellen P ^a   Davis, James W ^c   Seto, Todd B ^b,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Hawaii Medical Service Association   (United States)

^d QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Breast cancer; Disease management; Ethnicity; Pacific Islanders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY CANCER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FILIPINO; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPANESE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PACIFIC ISLANDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASIA; ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745246867     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2006.08.036     Document Type: Article

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