Geographic distribution of the incidence of adult T-cell leukemia/ lymphoma and other malignancies in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 301-306

  Arisawa, Kokichi ^a,b   Soda, Midori ^b   Shirahama, Satoshi ^c   Saito, Hiroshi ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Yamaguchi, Maki ^a   Odagiri, Kazumasa ^a   Nakagoe, Tohru ^a   Suyama, Akihiko ^b   Doi, Hiroshi ^d  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^c Kamigoto Hospital   (Japan)

^d Department of Health and Welfare ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliary tract cancer; Ecological study; HTLV I; Liver neoplasms; Lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOTHESIS; JAPAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; T CELL LEUKEMIA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BILIARY TRACT TUMOR; GEOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, ACUTE, HTLV-I-ASSOCIATED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 17144469586     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyf065     Document Type: Article

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