An examination of racial differences in 5-year survival of cervical cancer among African American and white American women in the southeastern US from 1985 to 2010

Cancer Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2126-2135

  Weragoda, Janaka ^a   Azuero, Andres ^a   Badiga, Suguna ^a   Bell, Walter C ^b   Matthews, Roland ^c   Piyathilake, Chandrika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; racial disparities; survival; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX ADENOCARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX ADENOSQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERUS SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85000500188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.765     Document Type: Article

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