Access to Prostate Cancer Care and Implications for Survival Among Minorities

Journal of Urology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 447-448

  Oliver, M Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT CARE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MINORITY GROUPS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149288070     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.11.003     Document Type: Editorial

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