Testicular cancer mortality in the Americas, 1980-2003

Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 776-779

  Bertuccio, Paola ^a   Malvezzi, Matteo ^a   Chatenoud, Liliane ^a   Bosetti, Cristina ^a   Negri, Eva ^a   Levi, Fabio ^b   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,c  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Latin America; Mortality; Testis; Trends

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHILE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33846930388     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22473     Document Type: Article

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