Recent trends in black-white disparities in cancer mortality

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2908-2912

  DeLancey, John Oliver L ^a   Thun, Michael J ^a   Jemal, Ahmedin ^a   Ward, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE; RECTUM CANCER; SMOKING;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55849135195     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0131     Document Type: Article

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