The expanding melanoma burden in California hispanics: Importance of socioeconomic distribution, histologic subtype, and anatomic location

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 152-161

  Pollitt, Ricardo A ^a   Clarke, Christina A ^a,b   Swetter, Susan M ^a,c   Peng, David H ^d   Zadnick, John ^e   Cockburn, Myles ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnicity; Hispanic Americans; melanoma; race; social class; tumor thickness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 78650704651     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25355     Document Type: Article

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