Race/ethnicity and socio-economic differences in breast cancer surgery outcomes

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 745-751

  Akinyemiju, Tomi F ^a   Vin Raviv, Neomi ^b   Chavez Yenter, Daniel ^a   Zhao, Xueyan ^a   Budhwani, Henna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Disparities; Mortality; Race ethnicity; Socio economic status; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MORTALITY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84941738062     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2015.07.010     Document Type: Article

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