Commentary: Cancer incidence among Asian Indians in India and abroad

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 160-161

  Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFESTYLE; LUNG CANCER; MIGRATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CANCER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SINGAPORE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38949124351     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym249     Document Type: Note

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