A comparison of breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers reported to the National Cancer Data Base and The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2052-2061

  Mettlin, Curtis J ^a   Menck, Herman R ^b   Winchester, David P ^b   Murphy, Gerald P ^c  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer registries; cancer statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY; ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPAIN; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030918075     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970515)79:10<2052::AID-CNCR29>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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