Breast cancer mortality rates are levelling off or beginning to decline in many western countries: Analysis of time trends, age-cohort and age-period models of breast cancer mortality in 20 countries

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 955-960

  Hermon, C ^a   Beral, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age standardisation; Age birth cohort and age period models; Breast cancer mortality; International comparisons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 0029933489     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1996.171     Document Type: Article

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