Higher long-term cancer survival rates in southeastern Netherlands using up-to-date period analysis

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 709-712

  Houterman, S ^a   Janssen Heijnen, M L G ^a   van de Poll Franse, L V ^a   Brenner, H ^b   Coebergh, J W W ^a,c  

^a Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer registry; Period analysis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NETHERLANDS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PERIOD ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TESTIS CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33645312649     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdj139     Document Type: Article

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