Young lung cancer patients in Japan: Different characteristics between the sexes

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1451-1455

  Sekine, Ikuo ^a,b   Nishiwaki, Yutaka ^a   Yokose, Tomoyuki ^a   Nagai, Kanji ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Kodama, Tetsuro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033058902     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00171-X     Document Type: Article

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