Lower risk of death from gastric cancer among participants of gastric cancer screening in Japan: A population-based cohort study

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-19

  Miyamoto, Akira ^a,b   Kuriyama, Shinichi ^a   Nishino, Yoshikazu ^a   Tsubono, Yoshitaka ^a   Nakaya, Naoki ^a   Ohmori, Kaori ^a   Kurashima, Kayoko ^a   Shibuya, Daisuke ^c   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Gastric cancer; Gastric cancer screening; Japanese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHOTOFLUOROGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846042221     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.07.016     Document Type: Article

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