Racial disparity in time between first diagnosis and initial treatment of prostate cancer

Cancer Control

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 47-51

  Kinlock, Ballington L ^a   Thorpe, Roland J ^a   Howard, Daniel L ^a,b   Bowie, Janice V ^a   Ross, Louie E ^a,c   Fakunle, David O ^a   Laveist, Thomas A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CANCER REGISTRY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RACISM; SOCIAL STATUS; TIME; TRUST; WAIT TIME; AGE; CANCER GRADING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SELF REPORT; TIME TO TREATMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NORTH CAROLINA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SELF REPORT; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84960329055     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327481602300108     Document Type: Article

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