Understanding disparities in leukemia: A national study

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1831-1837

  Patel, M I ^a   Ma, Y ^a,b   Mitchell, B S ^a,b   Rhoads, K F ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Disparities; Population based; SEER

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEREDITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867996457     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-012-0062-3     Document Type: Article

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