Ensuring Equity and Justice in the Care and Outcomes of Patients With Cancer

JAMA

Volumn 321, Issue 17, 2019, Pages 1663-1664

  Polite, Blase N ^a   Gluck, Abbe R ^b   Brawley, Otis W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROSTATE TUMOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85064014955     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.4266     Document Type: Note

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