Racial and ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer screening persisted despite expansion of medicare's screening reimbursement

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 811-817

  White, Arica ^a   Vernon, Sally W ^a   Franzini, Luisa ^b   Du, Xianglin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REIMBURSEMENT; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RURAL AREA; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955776204     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0963     Document Type: Article

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