Analysis of racial disparities in stage IIIC epithelial ovarian cancer care and outcomes in a Tertiary Gynecologic Oncology Referral Center

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 319-323

  Bristow, Robert E ^a   Ueda, Stefanie ^b   Gerardi, Melissa A ^c   Ajiboye, Onaopemipo B ^c   Ibeanu, Okechukwu A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ovarian cancer; Racial disparity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CA 125 ANTIGEN; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; SERUM ALBUMIN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON RESECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIAL OVARY CANCER; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OMENTECTOMY; OPTIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; OVARY CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960465024     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.04.047     Document Type: Article

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