Breast and prostate cancer survival in Michigan: Can geographic analyses assist in understanding racial disparities?

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2212-2221

  Meliker, Jaymie R ^a,b   Goovaerts, Pierre ^b   Jacquez, Geoffrey M ^b   AvRuskin, Gillian A ^b   Copeland, Glenn ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Breast; Geography; Michigan; Neoplasms; Prostate; Survival

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER SURVIVAL; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 65649088709     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24251     Document Type: Article

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