Racial disparities on the use of invasive and noninvasive staging in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1772-1778

  Suga, Jennifer Marie ^a   Nguyen, Danh V ^b   Mohammed, Sandra M ^b   Brown, Monica ^c   Calhoun, Royce ^a   Yoneda, Ken ^d,e   Gandara, David R ^a,d   Lara Jr , Primo N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Cancer Surveillance Program   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Lung cancer; NSCLC; Race; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LOBECTOMY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 78149470324     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181f69f22     Document Type: Article

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