Cancer in American Indian and Alaska Native populations continues to threaten an aging population: The need for tribal, state, and federal action

Cancer

Volumn 113, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1117-1119

  Kaur, Judith S ^a   Hampton, James W ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; AMERICAN INDIAN; CANCER INCIDENCE; ESKIMO; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; INCIDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS;

AGING; ALASKA; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53449089863     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23730     Document Type: Short Survey

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