Correlation of the ratio of metastatic to non-metastatic cancer cases with the degree of socioeconomic deprivation among Texas counties

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Philips Jr, Billy U ^a   Gong, Gordon ^a   Hargrave, Kristopher A ^a   Belasco, Eric ^b   Lyford, Conrad P ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CENSUS; HEALTH STATUS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 79551585813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-10-12     Document Type: Article

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