Reporting of race and ethnicity in breast cancer research: Room for improvement

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 511-517

  Mitchell, Kelly W ^a   Carey, Lisa A ^a   Peppercorn, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinical trials; Health disparities; Race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RESEARCH; DRUG INDUSTRY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70449567435     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-009-0411-4     Document Type: Article

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