The first year counts: Cancer survival among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Queenslanders, 1997-2006

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 270-274

  Cramb, Susanna M ^a   Garvey, Gail ^b   Valery, Patricia C ^b   Williamson, John D ^c   Baade, Peter D ^a  

^a VIERTEL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CANCER CONTROL   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POPULATION GROUPS; QUEENSLAND; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857876240     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja11.11194     Document Type: Article

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