Monitoring falls in gastric cancer mortality in Europe

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 338-345

  Levi, Fabio ^a   Lucchini, F ^a   Gonzalez, J R ^b   Fernandez, E ^c   Negri, E ^d   La Vecchia, C ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Europe; Gastric cancer; Mortality; Time; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEX RATIO; STANDARDIZATION; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RUSSIA; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1342310063     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdh057     Document Type: Article

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