Treatment disparities in hispanic rectal cancer patients: A SEER database study

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 906-908

  Martinez, Steve R ^a   Chen, Steven L ^a   Bilchik, Anton J ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECTUM CANCER; SPHINCTER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANAL CANAL; CANCER REGISTRY; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750729937     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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