Cancer in Lebanon: An epidemiological review of the American University of Beirut Medical Center Tumor Registry (1983-1994)

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 46-51

  Adib, Salim M ^a   Mufarrij, Amjad A ^b   Shamseddine, Ali I ^c   Kahwaji, Spiridon G ^a   Issa, Philippe ^d   El Saghir, Naji S ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Departments of Pathology   (Lebanon)

^c Residency Program Internal Medicine   (Lebanon)

^d Radiotherapy   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Cancer; Descriptive Epidemiology; Lebanon; Tumor Registry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LEBANON; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING;

EID: 0031974609     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(97)00109-9     Document Type: Article

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