Clinical characteristics and presentation of lung cancer according to race and place of birth

Future Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1353-1361

  Said, Rabih ^a,b   Terjanian, Terenig ^b   Taioli, Emanuela ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer survival; health disparities; outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77956308039     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.10.89     Document Type: Article

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