Incidence of testicular germ-cell malignancies in England and Wales: Trends in children compared with adults

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 630-634

  Dos Santos Silva, Isabel ^a   Swerdlow, Anthony J ^a   Stiller, Charles A ^b   Reid, Andrew ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Childhood Cancer Research Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; ENGLAND; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMINOMA; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; WALES;

EID: 0032707620     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19991126)83:5<630::AID-IJC11>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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