Time trend and age-period-cohort effect on incidence of thyroid cancer in Connecticut, 1935-1992

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 504-509

  Zheng, Tongzhang ^a   Holford, Theodore R ^a   Chen, Yating ^a   Ma, Jonathan Z ^a   Flannery, John ^b   Liu, Wen ^a   Russi, Mark ^a   Boyle, Peter ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Connecticut Tumor Registry ^*  (United States)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIOTHERAPY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME;

EID: 0029809729     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960807)67:4<504::AID-IJC7>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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