Avoidable deaths from cancer in the Nordic countries around the year 2000

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 318-319

  Dreyer, Lene ^a   Winther, Jeanette Falck ^a   Olsen, Jørgen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

COST OF ILLNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; SCANDINAVIA;

CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; COST OF ILLNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0035756631     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14034948010290040501     Document Type: Article

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