An ounce of prevention or a pound of cure? Investing to improve breast cancer outcomes for African American women

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2517-2518

  Linden, Hannah M ^a   Ramsey, Scott ^b   Anderson, Nancy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c Washington State Medicaid   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344654940     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.04.902     Document Type: Editorial

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