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| Barry A MillerSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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Cancer incidence and mortality patterns among specific Asian and Pacific Islander populations in the U.SBarry A Miller
Cancer Statistics Branch, Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6116 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20852, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:227-56. 2008..New databases added to publicly available SEER*Stat software will enable public health researchers to further investigate cancer patterns among API groups...
Persistent area socioeconomic disparities in U.S. incidence of cervical cancer, mortality, stage, and survival, 1975-2000Gopal K Singh
Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 8316, USA
Cancer 101:1051-7. 2004..The current article analyzed temporal area socioeconomic inequalities in U.S. cervical cancer incidence, mortality, stage, and survival...
Measures of racial/ethnic health disparities in cancer mortality rates and the influence of socioeconomic statusKenneth C Chu
Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:1092-100, 1102-4. 2007..We examined the cancer rates by racial/ethnic group, socioeconomic status and time period to identify disparities underlying the overall mortality trend...
Racial/ethnic patterns in lifetime and age-conditional risk estimates for selected cancersBarry A Miller
Cancer Statistics Branch, Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cancer 106:670-82. 2006....
Changing area socioeconomic patterns in U.S. cancer mortality, 1950-1998: Part II--Lung and colorectal cancersGopal K Singh
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 8316, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:916-25. 2002..S. cancer mortality. Because mortality rates for many cancers vary by socioeconomic characteristics, we used area socioeconomic indices to examine patterns in U.S. lung and colorectal cancer mortality between 1950 and 1998...
Changing area socioeconomic patterns in U.S. cancer mortality, 1950-1998: Part I--All cancers among menGopal K Singh
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 8316, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:904-15. 2002..However, such indices have not been used in cancer surveillance in the United States. We developed an area socioeconomic index to examine area socioeconomic patterns in all-cancer mortality among U.S. men between 1950 and 1998...
Health, life expectancy, and mortality patterns among immigrant populations in the United StatesGopal K Singh
Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, 6116 Executive Blvd, Suite 504, MSC 8316, Bethesda, MD 20892 8316, USA
Can J Public Health 95:I14-21. 2004..In this study, we examined the extent to which US- and foreign-born blacks, whites, Asians, and Hispanics differ in their health, life expectancy, and mortality patterns across the life course...
Impact of sociodemographic factors, hormone receptor status, and tumor grade on ethnic differences in tumor stage and size for breast cancer in US womenBarry A Miller
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:534-45. 2002..Because most of the sociodemographic variables were aggregate measures, it is possible that residual confounding by socioeconomic position could explain the persistence of slightly elevated odds ratios in some ethnic groups...
Methods for improving cancer surveillance data in American Indian and Alaska Native populationsDavid K Espey
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Cancer 113:1120-30. 2008..This article describes the data sources and methods that were used to address this misclassification and to produce the cancer statistics used by most of the articles in this supplement...
Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2004, featuring cancer in American Indians and Alaska NativesDavid K Espey
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Cancer 110:2119-52. 2007..S. The 2007 report features a comprehensive compilation of cancer information for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN)...
Quality of race, Hispanic ethnicity, and immigrant status in population-based cancer registry data: implications for health disparity studiesLimin X Clegg
Office of Healthcare Inspections, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:177-87. 2007..In particular, the study results caution against evaluating health disparities by using birthplace as a measure of immigrant status and race information for American Indians/Alaska Natives...
Rural/nonrural differences in colorectal cancer incidence in the United States, 1998-2001Steven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 107:1181-8. 2006..Few studies of colorectal cancer incidence by rural, suburban, and metropolitan residence have been published...
Geographic patterns of advanced breast cancer in Los Angeles: associations with biological and sociodemographic factors (United States)Marcia L Gumpertz
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 8203, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:325-39. 2006..We assessed to what degree biologic, ethnic, and sociodemographic factors could explain such patterns within Los Angeles County...
Incidence of ovarian cancer by race and ethnicity in the United States, 1992-1997Marc T Goodman
Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Cancer 97:2676-85. 2003
Height and the survival of prostate cancer patientsHonglei Chen
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:215-8. 2003..Our results suggest that greater height may be associated with better survival of prostate cancer patients...
Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999-2004Charles L Wiggins
New Mexico Tumor Registry, University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 0001, USA
Cancer 113:1142-52. 2008..However, the misclassification of race for AI/AN cancer cases in central cancer registries may have led to underestimates of the AI/AN cancer burden in previous reports...
