Racial disparities in breast cancer mortality in a multiethnic cohort in the Southeast

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2693-2699

  Adams, Swann Arp ^a   Butler, William M ^b   Fulton, Jeanette ^c   Heiney, Sue P ^a   Williams, Edith M ^a   Delage, Alexandria F ^a   Khang, Leepao ^a   Hebert, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b South Carolina Oncology Associates   (United States)

^c South Carolina Comprehensive Breast Center   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; breast neoplasms; health status disparities; mortality; tertiary prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 84860349162     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26570     Document Type: Article

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