Colorectal tumors within an urban minority population in New York City

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 835-840

  Kanna, Balavenkatesh ^a   Schori, Melissa ^a   Azeez, Sulaiman ^a   Kumar, Suresh ^a   Soni, Anita ^a  

^a LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Hispanic; Minority

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON ADENOMA; COLON BIOPSY; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; REFERENCE DATABASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATABASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW YORK CITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34248562077     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0156-x     Document Type: Article

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