A study of head and neck cancer treatment and survival among indigenous and non-indigenous people in Queensland, Australia, 1998 to 2004

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Moore, Suzanne P ^a,b   Green, Adèle C ^a,d   Garvey, Gail ^a   Coory, Michael D ^c   Valery, Patricia C ^a,b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ETHNOLOGY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUEENSLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054868725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-460     Document Type: Article

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