Early cancer detection among rural and urban californians

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Blair, Sarah L ^a   Sadler, Georgia R ^a   Bristol, Rebecca ^a   Summers, Courtney ^b   Tahir, Zanera ^b   Saltzstein, Sidney L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REGISTER; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 34047215436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-194     Document Type: Article

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