Black heterogeneity in cancer mortality: US-blacks, Haitians, and Jamaicans

Cancer Control

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 347-358

  Pinheiro, Paulo S ^a,b   Callahan, Karen E ^a   Ragin, Camille ^b,c   Hage, Robert W ^b,d   Hylton, Tara ^e   Kobetz, Erin N ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b African Caribbean Cancer Consortium   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d St George s University   (Grenada)

^e FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; BLACK PERSON; CANCER MORTALITY; CARIBBEAN; CARIBBEAN (PERSON); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HAITIAN; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; JAMAICAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HAITI; INCIDENCE; JAMAICA; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HAITI; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAMAICA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84994506056     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327481602300406     Document Type: Article

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