Socio-Economic Inequalities in Survival of Patients with Prostate Cancer: Role of Age and Gleason Grade at Diagnosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Shafique, Kashif ^a,b   Morrison, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEATH; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM GRADING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873892034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056184     Document Type: Article

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