Age at cancer diagnosis for blacks compared with whites in the United States

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Robbins, Hilary A ^a,b   Engels, Eric A ^a   Pfeiffer, Ruth M ^a   Shiels, Meredith S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; COLON CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; THYROID CANCER; TUMOR INVASION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VERY ELDERLY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930398929     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dju489     Document Type: Article

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