Improvement of racial disparities with respect to the utilization of minimally invasive radical prostatectomy in the United States

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1894-1900

  Trinh, Quoc Dien ^a,b   Schmitges, Jan ^b,c   Sun, Maxine ^b   Sukumar, Shyam ^a   Sammon, Jesse ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^d   Jeldres, Claudio ^b   Bianchi, Marco ^b   Tian, Zhe ^b   Perrotte, Paul ^b   Rogers, Craig G ^a   Graefen, Markus ^c   Peabody, James O ^a   Menon, Mani ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive; Prostatectomy; Prostatic neoplasms; Racial disparities; Robotic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858707521     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26527     Document Type: Article

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