Epidemiology of pancreatic cancer

Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-7

  Tominaga, Suketami ^a   Kuroishi, Tetsuo ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Division of Epidemiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age factors; Alcohol drinking; China; Coffee; Diet; Epidemiology; Etiology; Hawaii; Japan; Los Angeles; Mortality; Occupational diseases; Pancreatic neoplasms; Prevention and control; Racial stocks; Risk; Sex factors; Smoking; Time factors; World

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; COFFEE; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

COFFEE; DIET; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0031853977     PISSN: 87560437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2388(199807/08)15:1<3::AID-SSU2>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Review

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