Impact of socioeconomic status on cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis: Selected findings from the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results: National Longitudinal Mortality Study

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 417-435

  Clegg, Limin X ^a   Reichman, Marsha E ^b   Miller, Barry A ^b   Hankey, Benjamin F ^c   Singh, Gopal K ^d   Lin, Yi Dan ^e   Goodman, Marc T ^f   Lynch, Charles F ^g   Schwartz, Stephen M ^h   Chen, Vivien W ⁱ   Bernstein, Leslie ^j   Gomez, Scarlett L ^k   Graff, John J ^l   Lin, Charles C ^m   Johnson, Norman J ^m   Edwards, Brenda K ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^d HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^h Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

ⁱ LSU School of Public Health   (United States)

^j CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^l WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m US Bureau of the Census   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Education; Health disparities; Income; NLMS; Poverty; Race ethnicity; Record linkage; Rural urban; SEER; SES; Stage; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 64649083218     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-008-9256-0     Document Type: Article

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