Residence in rural areas of the United States and lung cancer mortality: Disease incidence, treatment disparities, and stage-specific survival

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 403-411

  Atkins, Graham T ^a   Kim, Taeha ^a   Munson, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Lung neoplasms; Rural population; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN SURVIVAL TIME; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; RURAL AREA; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INCOME; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85014765858     PISSN: 23256621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201606-469OC     Document Type: Article

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