Pancreatic cancer mortality in Egypt: Comparison to the United States pancreatic cancer mortality rates

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 473-479

  Soliman, Amr S ^a   Zhang, Qing ^b   Saleh, Thanaa ^c   Zarzour, Ali ^d   Selim, Mohei ^d   Abdel Fattah, Mahmoud ^e   Abbruzzese, James L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

^d ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Age specific mortality; Age specific rates; ANOVA and Tukey comparison test; Cigarette smoking; Developing countries; Diet; Environmental exposures; Etiological factors; Gene environment interactions; Geographic variation; Mortality; Occupation; Pancreatic cancer; SEER; Sex specific mortality; Susceptibility; Validation process

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGYPT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750974476     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: 15251500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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