Cancer mortality in Europe: Effects of age, cohort of birth and period of death

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 118-141

  La Vecchia, C ^a,b,c   Negri, E ^a   Levi, F ^d   Decarli, A ^b   Boyle, P ^e  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Epidemiology; Smoking; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EUROPE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SKIN CANCER; SMOKING; TESTIS CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031891745     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(97)00335-3     Document Type: Article

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