Prostate cancer in Western Australia: Trends in incidence and mortality from 1985 to 1996

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-24

  Threlfall, Timothy J ^a,b   English, Dallas R ^d   Rouse, Ian L ^a,c  

^a Health Department of Western Australia   (Australia)

^b Western Australian Cancer Registry ^*

^c Health Information Centre

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER;

EID: 0032490684     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb141472.x     Document Type: Article

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