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    Anatomic site distribution of colon cancer by race and other colon cancer risk factors (1995)
    Springer
    Diseases of the colon & rectum 38 (1995), S. 42-50 
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    ISSN: 1530-0358
    Keywords: Colon cancer ; Subsite ; Race ; Blacks ; Diet ; Parity ; Histologic Type ; Grade
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract PURPOSE: Black patients with colon cancer are more likely to have poorer survival from colon cancer than are white patients. To determine whether anatomic site differences might contribute to survival differences, we compared anatomic site distributions of black and white patients. METHODS: As part of the Black/White Cancer Survival Study, we collected medical record data for 1,045 patients from Atlanta, New Orleans, and San Francisco/Oakland, newly diagnosed in 1985 or 1986 and interviewed 745 of them. RESULTS: In polychotomous logistic regression analysis, site was related to stage, grade, and histologic type and among women with age, parity, and possibly smoking. However, it was not related to race, except perhaps among men age 65 and older, among whom blacks were somewhat likely to have more transverse and distal, not proximal, cancer. These relations were consistent across subgroups and were independent of other factors examined. CONCLUSION: Results suggest that site differences are unlikely to contribute to poorer survival commonly observed among black colon cancer patients in the United States.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02053856
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    Differences between Black and White patients with cancer of the uterine corpus in interval from symptom recognition to initial medical consultation (United States) (1996)
    Springer
    Cancer causes & control 7 (1996), S. 328-336 
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    ISSN: 1573-7225
    Keywords: Blacks ; health behavior ; health services accessibility ; race ; United States ; uterine neoplasms ; women
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: To determine whether Black women with symptoms of uterine corpus cancer had longer times from symptom recognition to initial medical consultation than did White women in the United States, 331 newly diagnosed patients living in Atlanta (GA), New Orleans (LA), and San Francisco/Oakland (CA) during 1985–87 were interviewed to collect information on symptoms, dates of recognition and consultation, and other factors that might affect the interval. Data were analyzed to estimate medical consultation rates and rate ratios following sysptom recognition. Median recalled times between symptom recognition and consultation were 16 days for Black women and 14 days for White women. Although poverty, having no usual source of healthcare, and other factors were associated with lower consultation rates, the adjusted rate among Black women was only somewhat lower (0.87) than among White women, and the 95 percent confidence interval (CI=0.58–1.31) was consistent with no true difference between the races. In addition, the median time to consultation for women with stage IV cancer was only 15 days longer than the time (14 days) for the women with stage I cancer. These results suggest that time from symptom recognition to initial medical consultation does not contribute importantly to the more advanced stage cancer of the uterine corpus commonly found among Black women.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00052938
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    Depression and cancer mortality and morbidity: Prospective evidence from the Alameda County study (1988)
    Springer
    Journal of behavioral medicine 11 (1988), S. 1-13 
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    ISSN: 1573-3521
    Keywords: depression ; cancer ; prospective ; morbidity ; mortality
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Psychology
    Notes: Abstract The association between the presence of depressive symptoms and cancer incidence and mortality and mortality from noncancer causes was studied in a population-based cohort of 6848 persons free of cancer who were followed from 1965 to 1982 as part of the Alameda County study. Age-adjusted and multivariate analyses involving over 111,000 person-years of follow-up demonstrated an association between high levels of depressive symptoms at baseline and deaths from noncancer causes but no association with either cancer incidence or cancer mortality. Our analyses suggest the possibility that the presence of previously diagnosed cases of cancer and the inclusion of items which tap somatic problems in depression scales may contribute to differences between these results and others in which depression has been linked to cancer mortality.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00846165
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