The role of tobacco in cancer health disparities

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 475-481

  Vidrine, Jennifer Irvin ^a   Reitzel, Lorraine R ^a   Wetter, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LARYNX CANCER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MOUTH CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RACE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; TOBACCO;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350142696     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-009-0064-9     Document Type: Review

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