Female breast cancer mortality clusters within racial groups in the United States

Health and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 209-218

  Tian, Nancy ^a   Gaines Wilson, J ^b   Benjamin Zhan, F ^a,c  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clusters; GIS; Race; Spatial epidemiology

Indexed keywords

CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GIS; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; RACE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 73049110384     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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