Cancer health disparities: Moving from why they occur to how they can be prevented

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 354-356

  Paskett, Electra D ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEGRO; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; COLORECTAL TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; STATISTICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84856753650     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.39.5947     Document Type: Editorial

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