Racial variation in tumor stage at diagnosis among Department of Defense beneficiaries

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1397-1403

  Enewold, Lindsey ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   McGlynn, Katherine A ^b   Devesa, Susan S ^b   Shriver, Craig D ^a   Potter, John F ^a,c   Zahm, Shelia H ^b   Zhu, Kangmin ^a,c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Department of Defense health system; equal health care access; military; racial disparity; tumor state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARMY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY SERVICE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857358726     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26208     Document Type: Article

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