Cancer mortality patterns in Ghana: A 10-year review of autopsies and hospital mortality

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wiredu, Edwin K ^a   Armah, Henry B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33747212063     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-159     Document Type: Article

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