Cancer-Directed therapy and hospice care for metastatic cancer in American Indians and Alaska natives

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1138-1143

  Shiovitz, Stacey ^a,b   Bansal, Aasthaa ^c   Burnett Hartman, Andrea N ^b   Karnopp, Andrew ^b   Adams, Scott V ^b   Warren Mears, Victoria ^d   Ramsey, Scott D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ALASKA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ALASKA; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941800182     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-15-0251     Document Type: Article

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