Cancer incidence among the Bahraini population: A five-year (1998-2002) experience

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-258

  Alsayyad, Jamal ^a   Hamadeh, Randah ^b  

^a Ministry of Health   (Bahrain)

^b ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAHRAIN; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KUWAIT; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OMAN; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SAUDI ARABIA; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER; TRACHEA CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 34948854383     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 13199226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2007.251     Document Type: Article

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