Cancer among spouses: Review of 195 couples

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 180-185

  Walach, Natalio ^a   Novikov, Ilya ^b,c   Milievskaya, Irene ^b,c   Goldzand, Gjorgy ^b,c   Modan, Baruch ^b,c  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Lifestyle; Spouse

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPOUSES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031953237     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980101)82:1<180::AID-CNCR23>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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