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Effect of comorbidity and body mass index on the survival of African-American and Caucasian patients with colon cancer

✍ Scribed by Robert B. Hines; Chandrakumar Shanmugam; John W. Waterbor; Gerald McGwin Jr.; Ellen Funkhouser; Christopher S. Coffey; James Posey; Upender Manne

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 144 KB
Volume: 115
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24598

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