Racial segregation and disparities in breast cancer care and mortality

Cancer

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2166-2172

  Haas, Jennifer S ^a,b   Earle, Craig C ^c   Orav, John E ^a,b   Brawarsky, Phyllis ^a   Keohane, Marie ^a   Neville, Bridget A ^c   Williams, David R ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Ethnicity; Race; Segregation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH CARE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 55749100133     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23828     Document Type: Article

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