Firm measures are required to effect any significant decrease in the Japanese age-adjusted mortality rate from malignant neoplasms for the 21st century

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-128

  Nakaji, Shigeyuki ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Yamamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Kakuta, Yukika ^a   Sakamoto, Juichi ^a   Sugawara, Kazuo ^a   Bailar, John C ^b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age adjusted mortality rate; Cancer; Gastric cancer; Time trend; Uterine cancer

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER THERAPY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1642292280     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EJEP.0000017665.58070.19     Document Type: Article

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