Frailty modelling of colorectal cancer incidence in Norway: Indications that individual heterogeneity in risk is related to birth cohort

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 587-593

  Svensson, Elisabeth ^a   Moger, Tron A ^b   Tretli, Steinar ^a,c   Aalen, Odd O ^b   Grotmol, Tom ^a  

^a CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cancer susceptibility; Carcinogenesis; Early life; Multi stage modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MODEL; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NORWAY; POPULATION MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORWAY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33749593941     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-006-9043-8     Document Type: Article

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