Cancer mortality-to-incidence ratios in Georgia: Describing racial cancer disparities and potential geographic determinants

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 4032-4045

  Wagner, Sara E ^a   Hurley, Deborah M ^b   Hébert, James R ^c,d   McNamara, Chrissy ^e   Bayakly, A Rana ^e   Vena, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d South Carolina Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control Program   (United States)

^e Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry   (United States)

Author keywords

geographic factors; Georgia; health status disparities; minority health; neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY TO INCIDENCE RATIO; MOUTH CANCER; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84864706416     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26728     Document Type: Article

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