Racial/ethnic variation in the anatomic subsite location of in situ and invasive cancers of the colon

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 733-748

  Shavers, Vickie L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colon; Prevention; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; ASIAN AMERICAN; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COLON CANCER; DESCENDING COLON; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOID;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447514261     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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