Effects of marital status and economic resources on survival after cancer: A population-based study

Cancer

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1618-1625

  Gomez, Scarlett Lin ^a,b,c   Hurley, Susan ^a   Canchola, Alison J ^a   Keegan, Theresa H M ^d   Cheng, Iona ^a,c   Murphy, James D ^e   Clarke, Christina A ^a,b,c   Glaser, Sally L ^a,b,c   Martínez, María Elena ^d,e,f  

^a CANCER PREVENTION INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

health insurance; marriage; mortality; neighborhood socioeconomic status; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MARRIED PERSON; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE (MARITAL STATUS); SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNITED STATES; UTERUS CANCER; ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963686200     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29885     Document Type: Article

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