Secular trend in U.S. black-white disparities in selected alcohol-related cancer incidence rates

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-130

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a  

^a Connecticut Department of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FRUIT; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICS; VEGETABLE;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 34347219440     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agl121     Document Type: Article

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