The complexity of race in the disparate outcome and treatment of minority patients

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-162

  Brewster, Wendy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MINORITY GROUP; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL CLASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55649121600     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2008.10.001     Document Type: Editorial

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