Unusually high rate of young-onset pancreatic cancer in the East Nile Delta region of Egypt

International Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 143-151

  Soliman, Amr S ^a,c   El Ghawalby, Nabih ^b   Ezzat, Farouk ^b   Bondy, Melissa L ^a   Soultan, Ahmed ^b   Abdel Wahab, Mohamed ^b   Fathy, Omar ^b   Ebidi, Gamal ^b   Bassiouni, Nadia ^b   El Ghawalbi, Ahmed ^b   Levin, Bernard ^a   Abbruzzese, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Age distribution; Egypt; Epidemiology; Pancreatic cancer; Young onset

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038308343     PISSN: 01694197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/ijgc:32:2-3:143     Document Type: Article

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