Commentary: Fifty years of the multistage model: Remarks on a landmark paper

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1182-1183

  Moolgavkar, Suresh H ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 12344337452     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh288     Document Type: Note

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