Breast cancer five-year survival in New South Wales women, 1972 to 1991

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-205

  Taylor, Richard ^a   Coates, Marylon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b New S Wales Central Cancer Registry   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; METASTASIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0030966493     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1997.tb01683.x     Document Type: Article

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