Correlation of the ratio of metastatic to non-metastatic cancer cases with the degree of socioeconomic deprivation among Texas counties

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have demonstrated that cancer registrations and hospital discharge rate are closely correlated with census data-based socioeconomic deprivation indices. We hypothesized that communities with higher degrees of socioeconomic deprivation tend to have a higher ratio of metas...

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Main Authors: Philips, Billy U, Gong, Gordon, Hargrave, Kristopher A, Belasco, Eric, Lyford, Conrad P
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044097/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21294886
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-10-12
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