Declining mortality from bladder cancer in Europe

BJU International

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-19

  Ferlay, Jacques ^a   Randi, Giorgia ^b   Bosetti, Cristina ^b   Levi, Fabio ^c   Negri, Eva ^b   Boyle, Peter ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^c,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Mortality; Occupation; Time trends; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; DIETARY INTAKE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36849068956     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.07239.x     Document Type: Article

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