Follow-up and timeliness after an abnormal cancer screening among underserved, urban women in a patient navigation program

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1691-1700

  Markossian, Talar W ^a   Darnell, Julie S ^b   Calhoun, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PATIENT NAVIGATION PROGRAM; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT NAVIGATION; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867319979     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0535     Document Type: Article

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