Do racial disparities exist in the use of prostate cancer screening and detection tools in veterans?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34.e9-34.e18

  Hudson, M'Liss A ^a,b   Luo, Suhong ^b   Chrusciel, Timothy ^b   Yan, Yan ^c   Grubb, Robert L ^a,b   Carson, Kenneth ^a   Scherrer, Jeffrey F ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MO   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; African American; Cancer detection; Cancer screening; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; VETERAN; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BIOPSY; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BIOPSY; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 84890802469     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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