Trends in Cancer Incidence in Connecticut

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 211-218

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a  

^a Connecticut Dept of Public Health ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PROSTATE TUMOR; RECTUM TUMOR; SKIN TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031114703     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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