Does socioeconomic status account for racial and ethnic disparities in childhood cancer survival?

Cancer

Volumn 124, Issue 20, 2018, Pages 4090-4097

  Kehm, Rebecca D ^a   Spector, Logan G ^b   Poynter, Jenny N ^b   Vock, David M ^a   Altekruse, Sean F ^c,d   Osypuk, Theresa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer survival; childhood cancer; mediation; racial and ethnic disparities; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; ANCESTRY GROUP; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CANCER SURVIVORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85052620023     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.31560     Document Type: Article

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