Race/ethnicity has no effect on outcome for breast cancer patients treated at an academic center with a public hospital

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2157-2161

  Chu, Quyen D ^a,b   Smith, Mark H ^a   Williams, Mallory ^a   Panu, Lori ^a,b   Johnson, Lester W ^c   Shi, Runhua ^a,b   Li, Benjamin D L ^a,b   Glass, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c EA Conway Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOUISIANA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949135385     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0232     Document Type: Article

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