Breast cancer mortality in appalachia: Reversing patterns of disparity over time

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 715-725

  Yao, Nengliang ^a,b   Lengerich, Eugene J ^a,b   Hillemeier, Marianne M ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENN STATE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachia; Breast cancer; Disparity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; APPALACHIAN REGION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 84860439958     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0043     Document Type: Article

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