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Differences Between Black and White Women With Breast Cancer in Time From Symptom Recognition to Medical Consultation

DOI

117

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0

References

1992

Year

Ralph J. Coates, Diana D. Bransfield, Margaret Wesley, Benjamin F. Hankey, J. William Eley, Raymond S. Greenberg, Dana Flanders, Carrie P. Hunter, B. K. Edwards, M. Forman,
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Abstract

This small difference in the time from symptom recognition to medical consultation is unlikely to account for the large racial differences in survival rates and in stage of disease at the time of diagnosis.