A description of age, sex, and site distributions of colon carcinoma in three geographic areas

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1666-1670

  Slattery, Martha L ^a,d   Friedman, Gary D ^b   Potter, John D ^c   Edwards, Sandra ^a   Caan, Bette J ^b   Samowitz, Wade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

age; colon carcinoma; sex; stage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029759893     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961015)78:8<1666::AID-CNCR5>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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