"Puerto Rico" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436)
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D011647
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Z01.107.084.900.750 Z01.639.880.750
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2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Puerto Rico" by people in Profiles.
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Zamora SM, Pinheiro PS, Gomez SL, Hastings KG, Palaniappan LP, Hu J, Thompson CA. Disaggregating Hispanic American Cancer Mortality Burden by Detailed Ethnicity. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 08; 28(8):1353-1363.
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Wells KJ, Lima DS, Meade CD, Muñoz-Antonia T, Scarinci I, McGuire A, Gwede CK, Pledger WJ, Partridge E, Lipscomb J, Matthews R, Matta J, Flores I, Weiner R, Turner T, Miele L, Wiese TE, Fouad M, Moreno CS, Lacey M, Christie DW, Price-Haywood EG, Quinn GP, Coppola D, Sodeke SO, Green BL, Lichtveld MY. Assessing needs and assets for building a regional network infrastructure to reduce cancer related health disparities. Eval Program Plann. 2014 Jun; 44:14-25.
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Quinn GP, McIntyre J, Gonzalez LE, Antonia TM, Antolino P, Wells KJ. Improving awareness of cancer clinical trials among Hispanic patients and families: audience segmentation decisions for a media intervention. J Health Commun. 2013; 18(9):1131-47.