Incidence of cancer among patients with knee implants in Sweden, 1980-1994

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3057-3062

  Fryzek, Jon P ^a,b   Ye, Weimin ^c   Signorello, Lisa B ^a,b   Lipworth, Loren ^a   Blot, William J ^a,b   Mclaughlin, Joseph K ^a,b   Nyren, Olof ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cohort study; Epidemiology; Knee implants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SWEDEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036604465     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10580     Document Type: Article

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