Pathways to diagnosis for Black men and White men found to have prostate cancer: The PROCESS cohort study

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1040-1045

  Metcalfe, C ^a   Evans, S ^a,b   Ibrahim, F ^a   Patel, B ^a,b   Anson, K ^c   Chinegwundoh, F ^d,e   Corbishley, C ^c   Gillatt, D ^f   Kirby, R ^c   Muir, G ^g   Nargund, V ^d   Popert, R ^h   Persad, R ^b   Ben Shlomo, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Ethnicity; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 53049089442     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604670     Document Type: Article

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