Mortality ascertainment of participants in the National Wilms Tumor Study using the National Death Index: Comparison of active and passive follow-up results

Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cotton, Cecilia A ^a,b   Peterson, Susan ^b   Norkool, Patricia A ^b   Breslow, Norman E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTHPLACE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547619393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-5573-4-5     Document Type: Review

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