The cancer incidence temporality index: An index to show temporal changes in the age of onset of overall and specific cancer (England and Wales, 1971-1999)

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 623-630

  Newby, J A ^a   Busby, C C ^b   Howard, C V ^c   Platt, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Green Audit   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Ageing; Cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STATISTICS; CASE STUDY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POPULATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; WALES;

EID: 37049024119     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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