Cancer incidence among first generation Scottish, Irish, West Indian and South Asian migrants living in England and Wales

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 83-92

  Harding, Seeromanie ^a,b   Rosato, Michael ^a  

^a OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Cancer; Ethnicity; Longitudinal study; Migrants

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNICITY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IRELAND; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASIA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032879215     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557859998218     Document Type: Article

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