Cancer and laterality: A study of the five major paired organs (UK)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 655-662

  Roychoudhuri, Rahul ^a   Putcha, Venkata ^a   Møller, Henrik ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Cancer; Incidence; Laterality; Stage; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646374916     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-005-0615-9     Document Type: Article

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