Increasing incidence of testicular cancer - Birth cohort effects

APMIS

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 225-231

  Ekbom, Anders ^a,b   Akre, Olof ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Birth cohort; Incidence; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HUMAN; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; POLAND; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 0031913853     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb01340.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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