Potentially preventable premature lung cancer deaths in the USA if overall population rates were reduced to those of educated whites in lower-risk states

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 409-418

  Islami, Farhad ^a   Ward, Elizabeth M ^a   Jacobs, Eric J ^a   Ma, Jiemin ^a   Goding Sauer, Ann ^a   Lortet Tieulent, Joannie ^a   Jemal, Ahmedin ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Education; Lung cancer; Mortality; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANCESTRY GROUP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RISK; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SMOKING; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925533839     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-014-0517-9     Document Type: Article

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