Open AccessUsing SEER Data to Quantify Effects of Low Income Neighborhoods on Cause Specific Survival of Skin Melanoma
Author(s) -
Min Rex Cheung
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of cancer prevention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2476-762X
pISSN - 1513-7368
DOI - 10.7314/apjcp.2013.14.5.3219
Subject(s) - melanoma , medicine , low income , environmental health , demography , geography , oncology , socioeconomics , cancer research , economics , sociology
This study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves to screen Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) skin melanoma data to identify and quantify the effects of socioeconomic factors on cause specific survival.