Ethnicity and rectal cancer management in New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 1384, 2013, Pages

  Swart, Esther M ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^a   Cunningham, Ruth ^a   Dennett, Elizabeth ^a   Signal, Virginia ^a   Gurney, Jason ^a   Stanley, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEW ZEALAND; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RECTUM CANCER; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; ADENOCARCINOMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABORIGINE; RECTUM TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885717566     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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