Mass screening for neuroblastoma and mortality in birth cohorts

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 552-555

  Nishi, Motoi ^a   Miyake, Hirotsugu ^a   Takeda, Takeo ^b   Hanai, Junji ^c   Kikuchi, Yuko ^c   Takasugi, Nobuo ^d  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c Sapporo City Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^d Health and Sanitation Bureau   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEUROBLASTOMA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

EID: 0031011803     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970516)71:4<552::AID-IJC8>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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