Prostate Cancer Severity Among Low Income, Uninsured Men

Journal of Urology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 579-584

  Miller, David C ^a   Litwin, Mark S ^a,b   Bergman, Jonathan ^a   Stepanian, Sevan ^a   Connor, Sarah E ^a   Kwan, Lorna ^a,b   Aronson, William J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

health status disparities; medically uninsured; prostatic neoplasms; public assistance; socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149179924     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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