Brain and other central nervous system cancers: Recent trends in incidence and mortality

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 91, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 1382-1390

  Legler, Julie M ^a,b   Gloeckler Ries, Lynn A ^a   Smith, Malcolm A ^a   Warren, Joan L ^a   Heineman, Ellen F ^a   Kaplan, Richard S ^a   Linet, Martha S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033581097     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/91.16.1382     Document Type: Article

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