Impact of county rurality and urologist density on urological cancer mortality in Illinois

Journal of Urology

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1608-1614

  Frye, Thomas P ^a   Sadowski, Daniel J ^a   Zahnd, Whitney E ^a   Jenkins, Wiley D ^a   Dynda, Danuta I ^a   Mueller, Georgia S ^a   Alanee, Shaheen R ^a   McVary, Kevin T ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

kidney neoplasms; mortality; prostatic neoplasms; rural health services; urinary bladder neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KIDNEY PELVIS CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES; UROLOGIST; BLADDER TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; KIDNEY TUMOR; MANPOWER; MORTALITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; UROLOGY;

HUMANS; ILLINOIS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RURAL HEALTH; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGY;

EID: 84927911199     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2014.11.100     Document Type: Article

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