The influence of race and ethnicity on the biology of cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 648-653

  Henderson, Brian E ^a   Lee, Norman H ^b,c   Seewaldt, Victoria ^d   Shen, Hongbing ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Ross Hall ^*  (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR GENE;

GENOMICS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84866378979     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3341     Document Type: Review

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