Curbing the liver cancer epidemic in Africa

The Lancet

Volumn 371, Issue 9610, 2008, Pages 367-368

  Hainaut, Pierre ^a   Boyle, Peter ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA;

EID: 38649106750     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60181-6     Document Type: Note

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