The global burden of cancer

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 219-235

  Parkin, D M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Annual incidence rates; Most common cancers; New cancer cases

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STATISTICS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0031740218     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scbi.1998.0080     Document Type: Article

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