Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in IllinoisFootnote∗

∗Financial support from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, under Grant 1-R21-CA114501-01, is gratefully acknowledged. Points of view or opinions in this article are those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of NCI. The research was conducted when Wang and Luo were at Northern Illinois University, and Escamilla was at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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