Trends in in-patient hospital utilization and surgical procedures for breast, prostate, lung and colorectal cancers in Canada

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1261-1270

  Neutel, C Ineke ^a   Gao, Ru Nie ^a   Wai, Elaine ^b   Gaudette, Leslie A ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer incidence; Cancer mortality; Cancer surgical procedures; Cancer trends; Colorectal cancer; Lung cancer; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREND STUDY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSTATE TUMOR; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33644876321     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-005-0379-2     Document Type: Article

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