The effects of cancer and racial disparities in health-related quality of life among older Americans: A case-control, population-based study

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1312-1320

  Pinheiro, Laura C ^a   Wheeler, Stephanie B ^a,b   Chen, Ronald C ^c   Mayer, Deborah K ^b   Lyons, Jessica C ^b   Reeve, Bryce B ^a,b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; elderly; health related quality of life; patient reported outcomes; racial disparities

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICARE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACISM; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SHORT FORM 36; SMOKING; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER REGISTRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926993412     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29205     Document Type: Article

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