Lung Cancer Disparities in African Americans: Health versus Health Care

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 431-439

  Flenaugh, Eric L ^a   Henriques Forsythe, Marshaleen N ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE T1; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG SURGERY; MEDICARE; NEGRO; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746361190     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2006.04.006     Document Type: Review

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