Persistent racial disparities in survival among U.S. Adults with hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation: The paradox of all-cause and cause-specific mortality

Gastrointestinal Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 73-74

  Njei, Basile ^a   Ditah, Ivo ^b   Lim, Joseph K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASIAN; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEGRO; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEPTICEMIA; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881498808     PISSN: 19347820     EISSN: 19347987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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