Disparities in treatment and outcome for renal cell cancer among older black and white patients

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 3589-3595

  Berndt, Sonja I ^a   Carter, H Ballentine ^a   Schoenberg, Mark P ^a   Newschaffer, Craig J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548508207     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.10.0156     Document Type: Article

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