Esophageal carcinoma in African Americans: A five-decade experience

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3577-3582

  Ashktorab, Hassan ^a   Nouri, Zahra ^a   Nouraie, Mehdi ^b   Razjouyan, Hadi ^a   Lee, Edward E ^b   Dowlati, Ehsan ^a   El Seyed, El Waleed ^a   Laiyemo, Adeyinka ^a   Brim, Hassan ^b   Smoot, Duane T ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Esophageal adenocarcinoma; Esophageal cancer; Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856208528     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1853-1     Document Type: Article

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