Racial and ethnic differences in time to treatment for patients with localized prostate cancer

Urology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 283-287

  Porter, Kimberly R ^a   Hsu, Jin Wen Y ^a   Chien, Gary W ^b   Xiang, Anny H ^a   Jung, Howard ^a   Chao, Chun ^a   Jacobsen, Steven J ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GLEASON SCORE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 84873291878     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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