Socioeconomic and Other Demographic Disparities Predicting Survival among Head and Neck Cancer Patients.

BACKGROUND:The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, "Unequal Treatment," which defines disparities as racially based, indicates that disparities in cancer diagnosis and treatment are less clear. While a number of studies have acknowledged cancer disparities, they have limitations of retrosp...

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Main Authors: Seung Hee Choi, Jeffrey E Terrell, Karen E Fowler, Scott A McLean, Tamer Ghanem, Gregory T Wolf, Carol R Bradford, Jeremy Taylor, Sonia A Duffy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4773190?pdf=render