Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer

Current Problems in Cancer

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 202-210

  Berger, Mitchel ^a   Lund, Mary Jo ^a   Brawley, Otis W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249333415     PISSN: 01470272     EISSN: 15356345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.currproblcancer.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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