Recent trends in cancer mortality in the Slovak Republic and in Europe

Neoplasma

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 68-72

  Ginter, E ^a  

^a INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Europe; Females; Males; Premature mortality; Slovak Republic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CHILD; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0034068205     PISSN: 00282685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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