Survival of indigenous and non-indigenous Queenslanders after a diagnosis of lung cancer: A matched cohort study

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 562-566

  Coory, Michael D ^a   Green, Adele C ^b   Stirling, Janelle ^b   Valery, Patricia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; ABORIGINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROGNOSIS; QUEENSLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 47049116448     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01790.x     Document Type: Article

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