Endometrial cancer survival among U.S. black and white women by birth cohort

Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 469-472

  Cook, Linda S ^a,b   Kmet, Leanne M ^a   Magliocco, Anthony M ^a   Weiss, Noel S ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Division of Population Health and Information   (Canada)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748118268     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000221026.49643.cf     Document Type: Article

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