Age-standardized incidence and mortality rates of oral and pharyngeal cancer in Puerto Rico and among Non-Hispanics Whites, Non-Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanics in the USA

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Suárez, Erick ^a   Calo, William A ^a   Hernández, Eduardo Y ^a   Diaz, Elba C ^a   Figueroa, Nayda R ^a   Ortiz, Ana P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PUERTO RICO; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; PHARYNX CANCER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PUERTO RICO; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66149173553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-129     Document Type: Article

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