Gender representation of cancer patients in medical treatment and psychosocial survivorship research: Changes over three decades

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4824-4832

  Hoyt, Michael A ^a   Rubin, Lisa R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; gender bias; men; research; women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN RELATION; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NEOPLASMS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SEXISM; STEREOTYPING; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866351887     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27432     Document Type: Article

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