Cyclic patterns of incidence variations for stomach cancer in the North-Western region of England

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-202

  Dimitrov, Borislav D ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^b MARIO NEGRI INST PHARMACOL RES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclicity; England; Incidence studies; Models, statistical; Periodicity; Probabilistic models; Stomach neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIANCE;

ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERIODICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034089253     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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