Breast cancer prevalence measured by the lombardy cancer registry

Tumori

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 875-879

  Micheli, Andrea ^a   Gatta, Gemma ^a   Sant, Milena ^a   Krogh, Vittorio ^a   Perone, Concetta ^a   Dell'Era, Livio ^a   Saltarelli, Stefania ^a   Berrino, Franco ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer registry; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0031415999     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089169708300601     Document Type: Article

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