Racial disparities in cancer-related survival in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in the US between 1973 and 2013

Alice Kim; Peter Ashman; Melissa Ward-Peterson; Juan Manuel Lozano; Noël C. Barengo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183782

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Racial disparities in cancer-related survival in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in the US between 1973 and 2013

Alice Kim ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Kim, Peter Ashman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Peter Ashman ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Kim, Peter Ashman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Melissa Ward-Peterson,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical and Health Science Research, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Juan Manuel Lozano,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical and Health Science Research, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Noël C. Barengo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nbarengo@fiu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical and Health Science Research, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0660-3091

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Racial disparities in cancer-related survival in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in the US between 1973 and 2013

Alice Kim,
Peter Ashman,
Melissa Ward-Peterson,
Juan Manuel Lozano,
Noël C. Barengo

Published: August 23, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183782

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