Assessing the burden of cancer in Texas using vital statistics data

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-181

  Cooper, Sharon P ^a,b   Sigurdson, Alice ^a,b   Labarthe, Darwin ^a,b   Whitehead, Lawrence ^a,b   Downs, Thomas ^a,b   Burau, Keith ^a,b   Vernon, Sally W ^a,b   Spitz, Margaret ^a,b   New, Bonnie ^a,b  

^a MD Anderson Cancer Center ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0031855210     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199802000-00010     Document Type: Article

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