Racial disparities in surgical resection and survival among elderly patients with poor prognosis cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 312-319

  Revels, Sha'Shonda L ^a,b   Banerjee, Mousumi ^a   Yin, Huiying ^a   Sonnenday, Christopher J ^a,b   Birkmeyer, John D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872315389     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.09.019     Document Type: Article

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