Diagnostic and therapeutic delays among a multiethnic sample of breast and cervical cancer survivors

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3195-3204

  Ashing Giwa, Kimlin T ^a   Gonzalez, Patricia ^a   Lim, Jung Won ^a   Chung, Cathie ^a   Paz, Benjamin ^a   Somlo, George ^a   Wakabayashi, Mark T ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cervical cancer; Diagnostic delay; Therapeutic delay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY DELAY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77954273250     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25060     Document Type: Article

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