Race, insurance type, and stage of presentation among lung cancer patients

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Efird, Jimmy T ^a   Landrine, Hope ^a   Shiue, Kristin Y ^a   O’Neal, Wesley T ^b   Podder, Tarun ^c   Rosenman, Julian G ^d   Biswas, Tithi ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Disparity; Lung cancer; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949799194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-710     Document Type: Article

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