Racial/ethnic differences in the use of surgery for ovarian cancer in the United States

Advances in Medical Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-98

  Merrill, R M ^a   Anderson, A E ^a   Merrill, J G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disparity; hysterectomy; ovarian cancer; surgery; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; OMENTECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954464975     PISSN: 18961126     EISSN: 18984002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10039-010-0021-8     Document Type: Article

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