Cancer mortality among Japanese immigrants and their descendants in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, 1999-2001

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 673-680

  Iwasaki, Motoki ^a   Mameri, Cecilia Polidoro ^b   Hamada, Gerson Shigueaki ^b   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b Hospital Santa Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cancer; Immigrants; Japan; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAZIL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; JAPAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; INFANT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 16644393087     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyh123     Document Type: Article

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