Cancer statistics, 2008

CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 71-96

  Jemal, Ahmedin ^a   Siegel, Rebecca ^a   Ward, Elizabeth ^a   Hao, Yongping ^a   Xu, Jiaquan ^b   Murray, Taylor ^a   Thun, Michael J ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41349099104     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: 15424863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/CA.2007.0010     Document Type: Article

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