Long-term survival of breast cancer in Norway by age and clinical stage

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1435-1449

  Zahl, Per Henrik ^a   Tretli, Steinar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORWAY; ONSET AGE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NORWAY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030860282     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970715)16:13<1435::AID-SIM570>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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