How representative are the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) Program cancer data of the United States?

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1027-1034

  Merrill, Ray M ^a   Dearden, Kirk A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Incidence; Mortality; Poisson regression; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17844362212     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-004-1324-5     Document Type: Article

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