Cancer death rates in US congressional districts

CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 339-344

  Siegel, Rebecca L ^a   Sahar, Liora ^a   Portier, Kenneth M ^a   Ward, Elizabeth M ^a   Jemal, Ahmedin ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer mortality; Congress; geography; legislation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIZATION; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941599941     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: 15424863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/caac.21292     Document Type: Article

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