Trends in Racial Disparities in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1897-1906

  Shah, Anand ^a   Chao, K S Clifford ^a   Østbye, Truls ^b   Castleberry, Anthony W ^b   Pietrobon, Ricardo ^b   Gloor, Beat ^c   Clary, Bryan M ^b   White, Rebekah R ^b   Worni, Mathias ^b,c  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disparity; Ethnicity; Pancreatic adenocarcinoma; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic resection; Race

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885956741     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-013-2304-4     Document Type: Article

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