Urban vs. rural patients. differences in stage and overall survival among patients treated surgically for lung cancer

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-105

  Rybojad, Pawel ^a   Dłuski, Dominik ^a   Rybojad, Beata ^b   Kedra, Mariusz ^a   Sawicki, Marek ^a   Skoczylas, Piotr ^a   Tabarkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b University Children's Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Inequalities in health; Lung cancer; Overall survival; Rural and urban population

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POLAND; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING HABIT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84875627110     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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