Racial/ethnic disparities in access to care and survival for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1158-1163

  Mathur, Amit K ^a   Osborne, Nicholas H ^a   Lynch, Raymond J ^a   Ghaferi, Amir A ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a   Sonnenday, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650774178     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.272     Document Type: Article

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