Comorbidities and mammography use interact to explain racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3252-3261

  Yasmeen, Shagufta ^a,d   Xing, Guibo ^a   Morris, Cyllene ^b   Chlebowski, Rowan T ^c   Romano, Patrick S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Cancer Registry   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; comorbidities; mammography; racial ethnic disparities

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959920857     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25857     Document Type: Article

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