Has the PSA wave already crashed upon us? Changes in the epidemiology of prostate cancer from 1985 to 1994 in central Italy [3]

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 361-362

  Barchielli, A ^a   Crocetti, E ^a   Zappa, M ^a  

^a UO Epidemiologia Presido di Prevenzione Oncologia AO Careggi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032963602     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008301516487     Document Type: Letter

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