Do clinical databases render population-based cancer registers obsolete? The example of breast cancer in Denmark

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 669-674

  Rostgaard, Klaus ^a   Holst, Helle ^b   Mouridsen, Henning T ^c   Lynge, Elsebeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Database; Register

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; DATA BASE; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0033898094     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008928204121     Document Type: Article

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