Race as a social construct in head and neck cancer outcomes

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 381-389

  Worsham, Maria J ^a   Divine, George ^a   Kittles, Rick A ^b,c  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry informative markers (AIMs); European ancestry; Genotyping; Self report; Stage; Survival; West African (WA) ancestry

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 79959800048     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599810393884     Document Type: Article

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