Estimating Lifetime and Age-Conditional Probabilities of Developing Cancer

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-186

  Wun, Lap Ming ^a   Merrill, Ray M ^a   Feuer, Eric J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer prevalence; Corpus and uterus NOS cancers; Hysterectomy prevalence; Incidence; Life table

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LIFE TABLE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; ONSET AGE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031605135     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009685507602     Document Type: Article

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