Trends in colorectal cancer screening utilization among ethnic groups in California: Are we closing the gap?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 752-759

  Maxwell, Annette E ^a,b   Crespi, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FILIPINO; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; JAPANESE; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; AGED; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 64549163327     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0608     Document Type: Article

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