Geographic variation of racial/ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer testing among medicare enrollees

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1755-1763

  Semrad, Thomas J ^a   Tancredi, Daniel J ^b   Baldwin, Laura Mae ^c   Green, Pamela ^c   Fenton, Joshua J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer screening; colorectal cancer; disparities; geography of health; Medicare

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; NEGRO; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953793593     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25668     Document Type: Article

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