Breast cancer epidemiology in blacks and whites: Disparities in incidence, mortality, survival rates and histology

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 480-489

  Baquet, Claudia R ^a   Mishra, Shiraz I ^a   Commiskey, Patricia ^b   Ellison, Gary L ^a   DeShields, Mary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Eastern Shore Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Minority health; Mortality survival; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 44149103424     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0027-9684(15)31294-3     Document Type: Article

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